What I really want to know is, how different is this OS, and what should I, a reasonably experienced and competent Linux guy, look out for? What is the difference between a SysV init file and a BSD ...

OpenBSD, one of the more prominent variants of the BSD family of Unix-like operating systems, will be released at the beginning of September, according to a note on the official OpenBSD website. Often ...

So I think my linux firewall might have been hacked. Tonight I'm going to do a fresh install. I'm considering switching over to OpenBSD. However, I currently run an IPSec VPN with 3 other networks of ...

A new feature added in test snapshots for OpenBSD releases will create a unique kernel every time an OpenBSD user reboots or upgrades his computer. This feature is named KARL — Kernel Address ...

Theo de Raadt, who works on the open source operating system OpenBSD, calls Linux "rubbish" and claims people only stick with it because they don't know any better. OpenBSD differs from Linux in that ...

The open source Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) versions of UNIX suffer from a lack of eyeballs on their code, and that hurts their security, Ilja van Sprundel, director of penetration testing at ...

Exploit broker Zerodium is offering rewards of up to $500,000 for zero-days in UNIX-based operating systems like OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, but also for Linux distros such as Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian, ...