Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?

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Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?What is OpenBSD ?Why using OpenBSD? Because you can!Why using OpenBSD? Because it is featurefull!Why using OpenBSD? Because it provides binary packages!Why using OpenBSD? Because it is simple!Why using OpenBSD? Because …Pointers to continue the journeyOne more thingLast week-end, I was invited to the UNIX Social Camp in Dijon, France to talk about the reasons I still use OpenBSD these days and why should others do so; or at least, have a look at OpenBSD .This post is an English transcription of the original French slides that are available here .What is OpenBSD ?OpenBSD is a free UNIX©-like operating system.It has been forked from NetBSD in 1995.The development process concentrates on portability and security.There are about 10+ supported hardware architecture.Some of the software (OpenSSH, LibreSSL, pf…) developed for OpenBSD are widely used in other free and proprietary software.The official OpenBSD website is https://www.openbsd.org .Why using OpenBSD? Because you can!The code is open and the sources freely available: OpenBSD CVSweb .The installation media can be freely downloaded from OpenBSD CDN .The system works on various hardware platforms: OpenBSD supported platform list .The system is compatible with most virtualisation platforms: Qemu, KVM, Virtualbox, VMware, bhyve, vmd…Why using OpenBSD? Because it is featurefull!It is developed and maintained with security in mind .It ships with loads of security innovations : privilege separation and revocation, stack protector, randomization,pledge(2) , unveil(2) , etc…Here are a few server-based options:It can also be used as a workstation thanks to integrated software like:And many more…Why using OpenBSD? Because it provides binary packages!A whole set of Free and OpenSource Software is available as binary packages for every supported architecture.amd64: ~12000arm64: ~12000powerpc: ~8000risc64: ~10000sparc64: ~9000etc …Server-oriented highlighted softw...