Title: Introduction to the OpenBSD operating system
       Author: Solène
       Date: 01 October 2023
       Tags: openbsd bsd octopenbsd
       Description: In this article, you will learn about the OpenBSD project,
       how to try it and some hints about its usage
       
       # Introduction
       
       I often see a lot of confusion with regard to OpenBSD, either
       assimilate as a Linux distribution or mixed up with FreeBSD.
       
       Let's be clear, OpenBSD is a stand alone operating system.  It came as
       a fork of NetBSD in 1994, there isn't much things in common between the
       two nowadays.
       
       While OpenBSD and the other BSDs are independant projects, they share
       some very old roots in their core, and regularly see source code
       changes in one being imported to another, but this is really a very
       small amount of the daily code changes though.
       
       # OpenBSD features in 60 seconds
       
       Let's do it quick, what can you find in OpenBSD?
       
       * a complete operating system with X, network services, compilers, all
       out of the box
       * 100% community driven
       * more than 11000 packages with stuff like GNOME, Xfce, LibreOffice,
       Chromium, Firefox, KDE applications, GHC etc... (and KDE Plasma SOON!)
       * a release every 6 months
       * sandboxed web browsers
       * stack smash memory protection
       * where OpenSSH is developped
       * accurate manual pages for everything
       
       It's used with success on workstations, either for personal or
       professional use.  It's also widely used as a server, being for network
       services or just routing/filtering network!
       
  HTML All the innovations that happened in OpenBSD
       
       # Give it a try?
       
       ## On a Live-CD
       
       If you never used OpenBSD, you can easily give it a try using the
       community made LiveCD/LiveUSB FuguIta!
       
  HTML FuguIta project page
  HTML Older blog page about FuguIta
       
       ## In a virtual machine
       
       Another way to easily try OpenBSD is to run it in a virtual machine.
       
  HTML Complete installation guide of OpenBSD
       
       Please note that the VirtualBox additions are not available as their
       drivers never got written for OpenBSD.
       
       ## On a real system
       
       You can install OpenBSD on your system, or a spare computers you don't
       use anymore.  You need at least 48 MB of memory for it to work, and
       many architectures are supported like arm64, amd64, i386, sparc64,
       powerpc, riscv...
       
  HTML Complete installation guide of OpenBSD
       
       ## On a VPS
       
       You can rent an OpenBSD VM on OpenBSD Amsterdam, a company doing
       OpenBSD hosting on OpenBSD servers using the OpenBSD hypervisor!  And
       they give money to the OpenBSD project for each VM they host!
       
  HTML OpenBSD Amsterdam hosting
       
       # Installing GNOME
       
       I made a tutorial showing how to install GNOME, it's fairly easy!
       
  HTML How to install GNOME on OpenBSD (video tutorial)
       
       # We play video games on OpenBSD!
       
       This is actually possible, and always running native code to run video
       games.
       
  HTML OpenBSD Gaming video channel (peertube)
  HTML PlayOnBSD Games compatibility list
  HTML OpenBSD_gaming subreddit community
       
       # Going further
       
  HTML The OpenBSD project website
  HTML OpenBSD on Wikipedia