OpenBSD is a security-focused, free software, Unix-like operating system based on the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). Theo de Raadt created OpenBSD...
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Distribution (BSD) series of Unix variant options. The three most notable descendants in current use are FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, which are all...
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Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
BSD has become obsolete, the term "BSD" is now commonly used for its open-source descendants, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD....
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game consoles. The other current BSD systems (OpenBSD, NetBSD, and DragonFly BSD) also contain a large amount of FreeBSD code, and vice-versa.[citation...
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Ports collection (redirect from OpenBSD ports)
sites with a listing of OpenBSD ports and packages: openports.pl OpenPorts.se[usurped], originally announced as ports.openbsd.nu in 2006, was a custom-written...
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functionally equivalent, and endorsed by the OpenBSD project as a license template for new contributions. The BSD 0-clause license goes further than the 2-clause...
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early 2000s[update], there are four major BSD operating systems–FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD and DragonFly BSD, and an increasing number of other OSs forked...
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Portage (software) (redirect from Gentoo/OpenBSD)
an incomplete state. Gentoo/OpenBSD was a Gentoo/*BSD subproject to port Gentoo features such as Portage to the OpenBSD operating system. It was originally...
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For Developers. "OpenSSH 8.1 Release Notes". OpenSSH. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2024. "OpenBSD manual pages: SSH". openbsd.org. 3 July 2014...
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"atu-license". BSD Cross Reference, OpenBSD. "Manual Pages: ipw". Openbsd.org. 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2012-12-09. "Manual Pages: iwi". Openbsd.org. 2012-09-17...
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ISC license (category Free and open-source software licenses)
"Copyright Policy". OpenBSD. Retrieved 6 June 2016. de Raadt, Theo (21 March 2008). "Re: BSD Documentation License?". openbsd-misc (Mailing list). Retrieved...
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OpenBSD, from a forked version of NetBSD 1.0 near the end of 1995. In 1998, NetBSD 1.3 introduced the pkgsrc packages collection. Until 2004, NetBSD 1...
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Address space layout randomization (section OpenBSD)
features implemented as part of OpenBSD's mmap system call, and to detect use-after-free bugs. Released in 2013, OpenBSD 5.3 was the first mainstream operating...
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C standard library (redirect from BSD libc)
175–178. "Super User's BSD Cross Reference: /OpenBSD/lib/libc/string/strlcat.c". bxr.su. "Super User's BSD Cross Reference: /OpenBSD/lib/libc/string/strlcpy...
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doas (“dedicated openbsd application subexecutor”) is a program to execute commands as another user. The system administrator can configure it to give...
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Privilege separation (section OpenBSD)
mind is Dovecot. Separation of privileges is one of the major OpenBSD security features. OpenSSH uses privilege separation to ensure pseudo terminal (pty)...
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The OpenBSD Journal is an online newspaper dedicated to coverage of OpenBSD software and related events. The OpenBSD Journal is widely recognized as a...
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operating system. Cross-platform, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and OS X (now macOS) support was added in htop 2.0. Solaris/Illumos/OpenIndiana support was added in 2...
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Executable-space protection (section OpenBSD)
or heap; NetBSD does not by default use any software emulation to offer these features on those architectures. A technology in the OpenBSD operating system...
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Mode setting (section OpenBSD)
3.15 DRM/KMS code. OpenBSD has kernel-based mode setting support for Intel and Radeon GPUs. Starting with version 5.4 of OpenBSD, support for Intel GPUs...
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versions of OpenBSD (2.3 and 2.4) used a BSD Daemon with a halo, and briefly used a daemon police officer for version 2.5. Then, however, OpenBSD switched...
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Securing OpenBSD From Us To You". www.openbsd.org. BSDCan 2015 (June), Ottawa, Canada. Retrieved July 12, 2022. "OpenBSD 5.5". www.openbsd.org. Retrieved...
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and other features. In 4.4BSD and BSD Unix systems derived from it, such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly BSD, the implementation of UFS1 and...
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Comparison of BSD operating systems List of BSD operating systems FreeBSD Darwin (operating system) DesktopBSD MidnightBSD TrueOS NetBSD OpenBSD "GhostBSD is switching...
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Nginx (category Software using the BSD license)
Docker adoption". 13 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2018. "OpenBSD Upgrade Guide: 5.1 to 5.2". openbsd.org. 6 November 2012. "Heads Up: Nginx Removed From Base"...
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Entropy (computing) (section OpenBSD kernel)
systems, network interrupts can be used as an entropy source as well. OpenBSD has integrated cryptography as one of its main goals and has always worked...
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pages. OpenBSD Project gif(4) - OpenBSD manual pages. OpenBSD Project CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: src. OpenBSD Project GRE Tunneling in Windows Server 2016. Microsoft...
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designed for scalability, high performance and high availability. OpenBSD, an open source operating system which includes its own implementations of BGP...
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Retrieved 2013-05-12. "apache-httpd-openbsd-1.3.20140502p2 – OpenBSD improved and secured version of Apache 1.3". OpenBSD ports. Archived from the original...
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