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<div>OpenBSD is an open source Unix-like Operating System. It is free to download, copy and modify. It is not similar to [[Linux]] in a sense because it was based on the 4.4BSD Operating System developed at the University of California at Berkeley ([[UCB]]). OpenBSD's mascot is [[puffy]] the Blowfish. [http://www.openbsd.org OpenBSD Project Home Page]<br />
OpenBSD is written with [[C]] programming language.<br />
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== OpenBSD 4.8 ==<br />
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The [http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128862532525288&w=2 current] OpenBSD version is 4.8:<br />
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OpenBSD's preorders for 4.8 are on:<br />
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[http://www.openbsd.org/48.html OpenBSD 4.8 Release Page]<br />
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Looks like Puffy travels to Mexico this time.<br />
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== Ported programs that orginated at OpenBSD ==<br />
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* [[ssh|OpenSSH]] is a side-project of OpenBSD. It was forked from ssh with an old version that had little license restrictions and is compatible now with ssh 2.0.<br />
* [[pf]] was created at OpenBSD first (before being ported to other BSD's). Pf stands for Packet Filter and is a layer 3+ firewall. It was created to replace ipf.<br />
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== Release Song ==<br />
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Since release 3.0 OpenBSD has released a promotional song with its CD, it makes the project more hip this way. The songs and their lyrics can be found [http://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html here]<br />
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== Hackathons ==<br />
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Hackathons are get-togethers of the programmers of OpenBSD. Since OpenBSD makes money by selling CD's and other merchandise, there is enough money to pay some developers travel, room and board. At a hackathon which spans usually over a week or so the programmers do a lot of code and can help others that need some information at hand. [http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&r=1&w=2 Marc.info] can be used to track changes to the openbsd source tree which gets updated very often during a hackathon (otherwise one can subscribe to the list through majordomo).<br />
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== Export Restrictions ==<br />
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[[FreeBSD]] recently implemented ACPI code in its implemenatation that has [http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128634319422034&w=2 export restrictions]. OpenBSD has no such export restrictions since the project is based in Canada which is known for its liberal export rules.</div>84.170.165.15