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-One
of the ThreeBSD'
s. OpenBSD
was started
by having a group
of people
hand audit all the
code, and check it for security
.
Everyone, (
the unix
world in particular)
owe OpenBSD
a lot for spending a lot
of time actively looking for security issues and removing them, as well as promoting use of more
secure programs such as
[OpenSSH].
+[OpenBSD | http://www.openbsd.org/] is one
of three [*BSD]
s. It
was forked from [NetBSD] in 1995
by TheoDeRaadt, one
of the core [NetBSD] developers, when he and the rest of the team had a falling out. You can read [the rather bitter saga, described from Theo's side | http://zeus.theos.com/deraadt/coremail].
+
+The [OpenBSD] project permanently
hand audit all their
code. Everyone, and
the [Unix]
world in particular,
owe them
a lot for spending lots
of time actively looking for bugs and
security issues and removing them, as well as promoting use of secure alternatives to common protocols, even writing their own implementations where necessary. An example is
[OpenSSH], written to get rid of [Telnet] in favour of [SSH
].
+
+----
+Part of CategoryOperatingSystem
