Every OpenBSD admin has booted
bsd.rdat least once — to install, upgrade, or rescue a broken system. But few people stop to look at what’s actually inside that file. It turns outbsd.rdis a set of nested layers, and you can take it apart on a running system without rebooting anything.That’s what we’ll do here. We’ll go from the raw gzip file all the way down to the miniroot filesystem, exploring each layer with standard tools. Everything is documented in the man pages — we’re just following the trail.
↫ Wesley Mouedine Assaby
What am I supposed to add here?
To add? What good BSD could be if all branches of the family agreed to create a common source code base
Why would anyone want that? FreeBSD exists as the “mainstream” BSD, use that if you want something that conforms to what most people expect from a *nix OS. OpenBSD serves a purpose that would be undermined by being forced to obey some arbitrary set of rules about how a “good BSD could be”. OpenBSD is “good”, as are all the others, and the fact that there are only five major forks of the original Berkeley System Distribution versus the literally thousands of Linux distros, should stand as a testament to the fact that the BSDs are doing just fine.