This is a list of software and ideas developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project, sorted in order of approximate introduction. Some of them are explained in detail in our research papers.
That’s an impressive list.
This is a list of software and ideas developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project, sorted in order of approximate introduction. Some of them are explained in detail in our research papers.
That’s an impressive list.
I understand funding isn’t the issue it used to be, but the most egregious thing about this list is of accomplishments is how important OpenBSD has been to the development of the modern internet, while receiving so little in return. There was a time not too long ago when the project couldn’t afford its power bills.
Most of the funding comes from small time contributors, although big time players like Google, Meta, and Microsoft have donated in the past. The list of contributors is here:
https://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html
Notably absent is the three trillion dollar company that continues to build on the back of OpenBSD. Just walk into their store, open any terminal on one of their machines and type “openssl version.”
Even when I don’t run OpenBSD in production right now, I still support them financially.
We used to run them as routers/firewall, we use OPNsense now, because it has a web interface (for the less knowledgeable colleagues), but all the most important parts in FreeBSD was imported code from OpenBSD.
you could be confusing OpenSSL with OpenSSH 😉
I’m not. Although, OpenSSH is a given on any platform.
macOS has used LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL for a half decade now.
I see, sorry I thought macos used OpenSSL, which I thought had little to do with OpenBSD.
LibreSSL is the OpenBSD fork, right?
> LibreSSL is the OpenBSD fork, right?
Yes
>while receiving so little in return
that happens when you publish under a cuck license