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Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?

Last 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 .

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