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LicenseBSD, ISC and other permissive licenses
Based OnResearch Unix>Berkeley Software Distribution>
Package ManagerOpenBSD package tools
DeveloperTheo de Raadt
Written inassembly, C, Perl and Unix shell
Initial releaseJuly 1996
Source modelOpen source
Latest releaseOctober 14, 2021 (v7.0)
OS familyUnix-like
Default user interfaceModified pdksh, X11 (FVWM)
Kernel typeMonolithic
Working stateCurrent
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OpenBSD
Recommended 4 years ago
Never come across anything more easily managed and well engineneered. It's minimal, has sane defaults, documentation is excellent and included, supports many architectures, etc. I use it on my laptop (IBM T42).
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The most secure OS of all timePro
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