If you're a software enthusiast who has never used OpenBSD before, you might enjoy installing it by yourself and figuring it out as you go. If, however, you're looking for a more practical approach to using OpenBSD 4.1 on a desktop or server machine, here's a quick guide to get you started in this spectacular operating system.

New release of OpenBSD -- free multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system, is here, containig huge quantity of additions, fixes, hardware support and changes.

OpenBSD provides a UNIX® distribution with a primary emphasis on security and cryptography. If you're looking for a UNIX distribution to deploy in the most critical nexus in your network infrastructure, look no further than OpenBSD. The recent release of OpenBSD—version 4.3—includes several new features and bug fixes that this article reviews.

The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Its efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography.

We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.8. This is our 28th release on CD-ROM (and 29th via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of more than ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.8 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system.

I was wandering on #freebsd and #openbsd some days ago and was pretty much amazed when people did not like GNU way. Then I read FreeBSd and OpenBSD FAQs and foud that BSD folks are very keen on replacing any GPLed code in their system with newly written BSD licensed code. OpenBSD even says that GPL is acceptable as last resource.

""OpenBSD is free as in air," Theo de Raadt [interview] stated in a recent thread on the OpenBSD -misc mailing list. The discussion began with a note that the Open Sound System [story] had recently been "open sourced" under the GPLv2 and CDDL leading Theo to comment..."

OpenBSD goes a step further with the official song for OpenBSD 4.4 (yeaah they've got a song too) is - Trial of the BSD Knights which is hilarious. It basically recounts the good fight of BSD against the Evil Empire.

OpenBSD -- free software multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system, emphasizing portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography, is switching on amd64 and sparc64 architectures over to GCC 4.2.1 (last GPLv2 licensed version).