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OpenBSD

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OpenBSD
OpenBSD_logo
The OpenBSD logo
Release Status Maintained
Release Model Stable
Package Manager pkg_*
Default Desktops FVWM, AfterStep, Awesome, Blackbox, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, GNOME, IceWM, KDE Plasma, Openbox, Window Maker, Xfce
Usage Type Security, Server
Architectures alpha, armish, aviion, hppa, i386, landisk, loongson, luna88k, octeon, powerpc, powerpc64, risc64, sgi, socppc, sparc, sparc64, x86_64, zaurus
Website openbsd.org

OpenBSD is a Unix operating system, based on the BSD (Berkley Software Distribution), developed by Theo de Raadt since 1995.[1] The first version of OpenBSD (1.2) released on July 1996.[1]

OpenBSD 7.0 running on the default desktop (FVWM).
OpenBSD 7.0 running on the default desktop (FVWM).

The OpenBSD project produces a free, multi-platform BSD 4.4-based Unix operating system. Its efforts emphasize portability, standardisation, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. The project also develops the widely-used and popular OpenSSH (OpenBSD Secure Shell) software, which provides encrypted communication sessions over a computer network using the SSH protocol.[2]

Many open source projects widely used in other operating systems started off as components of OpenBSD, such as doas, a safer replacement of the popular sudo, the aforementioned OpenSSH and Xenocara, a customized X.Org build infrastructure.[1]

Like all BSD operating systems, OpenBSD provides a kernel, drivers, userland utilities and documentation unlike Linux, which provides just the kernel and drivers, relying on third-parties such as GNU.