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.
Just like OSNews (more information about the OSNews Gemini capsule), this article is also available on Gemini.
A great primer from a great source, and I’m happy to see she linked the official installation guide instead of some outdated and often wrong random blog post. Solene@ is a phenomenal evangelist for OpenBSD, and she’s contributed to several aspects of the project, not the least of which is her OpenBSD webzine: https://webzine.puffy.cafe
She’s also created a GUI front end to the package manager ( https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-05-05-i-wrote-a-gui-frontend-with-a-game-engine.html ), written in Godot no less! Yes, a modern, powerful, versatile game engine runs great in OpenBSD and as shown, can do more than just games.
Yeah I’m glad to be following her on Mastodon too – she’s one hell of a source for OpenBSD-related matters.