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OpenBSD Alive

OpenBSD
KindOperating system
Appeared1996
StatusAlive
CreatorTheo de Raadt / OpenBSD Project
FamilyBSD
Platformmany
Sourcewww.openbsd.org ↗

Security as religion — forked from NetBSD over a mailing-list fight; gave the world OpenSSH, pf, and the audit-everything method.

Descended from NetBSD
Created by Theo de Raadt
Predecessors BSD NetBSD

Theo de Raadt forked NetBSD in 1995 over commit access and built OpenBSD — the security-obsessed fork that audits code proactively, invented OpenSSH, PF, OpenBGPD, and the 'only two remote holes in the default install' brag.\n\nEvery security-first claim in modern OS marketing descends from OpenBSD's practices.

Sources

  1. openbsd.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD