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OpenBSD is one of three *BSDs. 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.

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.


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