Awesome OpenBSD

Curated list of resources about OpenBSD 🐡

Index

• Official OpenBSD
• Projects around OpenBSD
• OpenBSD Stats
• OpenBSD-based projects
• Hosting
• Virtualization
• CI
• Jobs
• Community
  • News
  • Conferences
  • BSD user groups
  • Mailing lists
  • Chats
  • Twitter
  • Mastodon
  • Interviews with OpenBSD developers
  • Blogs
  • OpenBSD Countries Communities
• Selected articles
• Videos
• Third party repositories
• OpenBSD Provisioning
• Portable OpenBSD Components
• OpenBSD Developers

Official OpenBSD

• OpenBSD Project
• OpenBSD Foundation
• OpenBSD Umbrella:
  • OpenSSH - the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol
  • LibreSSL - a version of the TLS/crypto stack forked from OpenSSL in 2014, with goals of modernizing the codebase, improving security, and applying best practice development processes
  • OpenNTPD - free and easy to use implementation of the Network Time Protocol
  • OpenSMTPD - free implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321
  • OpenBGPD - free implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol, Version 4
  • rpki-client - free and easy-to-use implementation of the RPKI for Relying Parties (RP) to facilitate validation of the Route Origin of a BGP announcement
  • mandoc - free UNIX manpage compiler toolset
  • Game of Trees - version control system which prioritizes ease of use and simplicity over flexibility

Projects around OpenBSD

• OpenBSD GIT mirrors - OpenBSD CVS repository conversions for public consumpiton (managed by OpenBSD hackers)
• OpenBSD Testing Infrastructure - infrastructure for semi-automatic testing of source code changes
• OpenBSD Kernel fuzzer - kernel fuzzer, syzkaller, uses declarative description of syscall interfaces to manipulate programs (sequences of syscalls).
• OpenBSD dmesg collection - user-submitted repository of OpenBSD dmesgs.
• Hardware for OpenBSD - anonymously collect hardware details of BSD-powered computers.
• Unofficial OpenBSD Testing
• mdoc.su - URL shortener for BSD manual pages
• bxr.su - powerful search on OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD (and other project) code bases
• Status of OpenBSD mirrors
• OpenBSD WIP - unofficial OpenBSD ports
• OpenBSD ports - /usr/ports/databases/ports-readmes
• OpenBSD Ports Readme - maintained by @solene
• OpenBSD.app package search - maintained by @qbit
• M:Tier's OpenBSD packages and binpatches - security updates in both packages and base system
• portroach - OpenBSD Ports Distfile Scanner
• Why OpenBSD rocks - The facts
• OpenBSD Handbook
• OpenBSD Howto
• OpenBSD Router Guide

OpenBSD stats

• OpenBSD stats - CVS commit stats
• OpenBSD community metrics
• OpenBSD releases EOL

OpenBSD-based projects

• closed-source genua offers sophisticated IT security solutions based on OpenBSD: The two-tier genugate system is the only firewall certified by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) at E3 / high level under the ITSEC international standard.
• closed-source Calyptix Security - firewall to protect and manage SMB networks. See slides.
• closed-source M:Tier: OpenBSD thin client (slides), OpenBSD enterprise desktop for Fortune 500 companies (slides and article), Long Term Support subscription.
• opensource reflash
• opensource FuguIta is a live system based on OpenBSD that is designed to run from removable media. Note a portion of documentation is only available in Japanese.

Hosting

• vmm OpenBSD Amsterdam
• kvm RootBSD
• kvm ARP Networks
• kvm RamNode
• kvm Digital Ocean (How-To)
• kvm Vultr
• kvm Hetzner
• kvm BuyVM
• kvm Exoscale
• kvm BoxyBSD
• kvm Google Compute Engine
• kvm Data Center Light
• xen Amazon EC2
• xen AWS-OpenBSD - AWS playground for OpenBSD kids
• xen TornadoVPS (How-To Setup)(formerly prgmr.com)
• hyper-v Azure Devops
• shell Devio.us
• shell Polarhome
• shell Free Shell Accounts
• shell tilde.institute of OpenBSD Education

Virtualization

• Vagrant support
• Packer support

CI

• Appveyor (In progress)
• Cirrus CI - FreeBSD support, OpenBSD support WIP
• Sourcehut - OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD support
• GitLab (HowTo), sysutils/gitlab-runner
• GitHub action vmactions/openbsd-vm
• Travis CI (Running FreeBSD in Travis-CI)
• MinCI https://github.com/kristapsdz/minci

Jobs

• StackOverflow
• jobs@lists.nycbug.org

Community

• Quora
• StackOverflow

News

• Undeadly - OpenBSD Journal
• OpenBSD Webzine
• Planet OpenBSD - src repo
• Lobsters OpenBSD tag
• Reddit /r/openbsd

Conferences

• EuroBSDCon
• NYCBSDCon
• AsiaBSDCon
• BSDCan
• vBSDCon
• OpenKyiv
• BSDTW
• bhyvecon
• BSD devroom at FOSDEM (Twitter)
• NYCBSDCon (Twitter)

BSD User groups

• https://www.meetup.com/topics/bsd/
• https://www.freebsd.org/usergroups.html
• https://www.openbsd.org/groups.html
• https://www.netbsd.org/community/groups.html

Mailing lists

• https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html
• MARC:
  • openbsd-tech
  • openbsd-cvs
  • openbsd-ports
  • openbsd-misc

Chats

• gitter https://gitter.im/BSDs/OpenBSD
• irc #OpenBSD on irc.libera.chat
• irc #OpenBSD-Russian on irc.freenode.net
• matrix OpenBSD
• telegram OpenBSD Jumpstart
• telegram OpenBSD English
• telegram OpenBSD Russian
• telegram OpenBSD Chinese
• telegram OpenBSD Brazil
• telegram OpenBSD Spain
• telegram BSDar Argentina

Twitter

• @OpenBSD
• OpenBSD Commits To Twitter (maintained by Andrew Fresh)
• @OpenBSDJournal - tweets to Undeadly.org stories
• @OpenSMTPD
• @OpenBSDNow - OpenBSD News & Updates
• @mpotd_openbsd - Man Page of The Day

Mastodon

• OpenBSD Commits To Mastodon
• bsd.network
• @phessler - bsd.network's admin
• @AFresh1
• @bcallah
• @romanzolotarev
• @akpoff
• @brynet
• @h3artbl33d
• @OpenBSDAms
• @openbsdnow
• @polishdub

Interviews with OpenBSD developers

• Bryan Steele (brynet@) beastie.pl
• Theo de Raadt Yandex, Linux.com, KernelTrap
• Alexander Yurchenko eax.me
• David Gwynne bsdtalk
• Stefan Sperling distrowatch
• Bob Beck bsdtalk
• Marco Peereboom bsdtalk
• Daniel Hartmeier onlamp
• Joris Vink bsdtalk
• Robert Nagy The Document Foundation
• Joshua Stein The Setup, beastie.pl
• Marc Espie linuxfr.org, beastie.pl
• Gilles Chehade bronevichok.ru, beastie.pl
• Henning Brauer IOException.de, beastie.pl
• Mike Larkin bsdtalk
• Anil Madhavapeddy FOSDEM
• Pierre-Yves Ritschard bsdtalk
• Claudio Jeker bsdtalk
• Jason Wright bsdtalk
• Marc Balmer bsdtalk
• Matthieu Herrb bsdtalk, bronevichok.ru
• Ingo Schwarze (schwarze@) beastie.pl
• Vadim Zhukov (zhuk@) beastie.pl
• Dmitrij Czarkoff (czarkoff@) beastie.pl
• Landry Breuil (landry@) beastie.pl
• Ted Unangst (tedu@) beastie.pl, Lobsters
• Brandon Mercer (bmercer@) beastie.pl
• Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@) beastie.pl
• Stefan Sperling (stsp@) beastie.pl

OpenBSD Countries Communities

• OpenBSD Brazil
• OpenBSD Pour Tous (France)

Selected articles

• Keeping Your OpenBSD System In Trim: A Works For Me Guide
• OpenBSD Workstation Guide
• OpenBSD on a Laptop
• Installing OpenBSD on your laptop is really hard (not)
• OpenBSD: why and how
• Configuring SNMP v3 on OpenBSD 6.4
• An OpenBSD Workstation
• Enlightenment on OpenBSD
• An awesome OpenBSD 6.1 desktop (XFCE)
• OpenBSD Gaming Resource
• Screencasting with OpenBSD
• OpenBSD's Autoinstall
• Fail2ban on OpenBSD 6.0
• Getting OpenBSD running on Raspberry Pi 3
• A simple first server - A series of posts about OpenBSD server configuration for learning purposes
• OpenBSD manpages reading list
• OpenBSD porting workshop, August 11, 2018 - twitch.tv video by bcallah@
• Debian on OpenBSD vmd (without qemu or another debian system)
• Nextcloud with OpenBSD
• Dendrite (Matrix server) with OpenBSD
• Backups with Bupstash on OpenBSD
• Wireguard on OpenBSD
• GoT on OpenBSD
• K3s cluster over vmm on OpenBSD
• Rspamd dashboard with Relayd

Videos

• An Introduction to OpenBSD
• OpenBSD talks, interviews and guides
• The OpenBSD guy channel

Third Party repositories

• OpenBSD wallpapers
• Scripts to run an OpenBSD mirror
• snap, an OpenBSD upgrade tool
• upobsd - download, verify and patch bsd.rd image
• dyndnsd - Dynamic DNS Daemon for OpenBSD
• OpenMDNS - Mdns daemon for OpenBSD
• awesome pledge(2)
• Support of OpenBSD pledge(2) in programming languages
• A collection of awesome BSD related stuff
• OpenBSD JumpStart - Learn to tame OpenBSD quickly
• OpenBSD and you - How to have fun with the world’s most important free software project (by Peter Hansteen)
• PF and Networking Tutorial - on BSDCan 2018 by Peter Hansteen and Massimiliano Stucchi
• OpenBSD Daily - mulander/openbsd-daily - official repository with all openbsd-daily reading by mulander and duncaen

OpenBSD Provisioning

• https://github.com/ligurio/openbsd-cookbooks
• https://git.sr.ht/~gonzalo/ansible-role-mailserver
• https://git.sr.ht/~gonzalo/apu2_setup
• https://git.sr.ht/~gonzalo/vmm_setup
• https://github.com/martinbaillie/homebrew-openbsd-pcengines-router/
• https://github.com/northox/openbsd-apu2
• https://github.com/elad/openbsd-apu2
• https://github.com/cullum/dank-selfhosted
• https://github.com/codeghar/openbsd-on-erl
• vedetta - OpenBSD Router Boilerplate
• caesonia - OpenBSD Email Service (there's also a Playbook for Caesonia)
• dotfiles, sweet dotfiles
• fvwm-config-on-openbsd - Configuration files for the FVWM window manager on a modern OpenBSD
• ohmyksh - A framework for OpenBSD's ksh
• openbsd.run - An OpenBSD-focused Ansible playbook embedded in type-annotated Python
• ksh-got-prompt - Show the Status of a GOT Repository in a KSH Prompt

Portable OpenBSD Components

• OpenSMTPD
• OpenIKED
• LibreSSL
• cwm(1) - portable version of OpenBSD's cwm(1) window manager
• doas
• ksh(1): ibara/oksh, dimkr/ksh
• file(1)

OpenBSD Developers

• https://github.com/fcambus
• https://github.com/mbelop
• https://github.com/omoerbeek
• jcs@ https://github.com/jcs
• djm@ https://github.com/djmdjm
• bluhm@ https://github.com/bluhm
• https://github.com/pirofti
• https://github.com/kristapsdz
• https://github.com/semarie
• https://github.com/jasperla
• https://github.com/ajacoutot
• https://github.com/bob-beck
• https://github.com/afresh1
• https://github.com/yasuoka
• https://github.com/reyk
• https://github.com/shadchin
• https://github.com/vext01
• https://github.com/tedu
• https://github.com/grayed
• https://github.com/nicm
• https://github.com/mfriedl
• https://github.com/hallexander
• https://github.com/ratchov
• https://github.com/ischwarze
• https://github.com/qbit
• https://github.com/cjeker
• https://github.com/rnagy
• https://github.com/millert
• https://github.com/poolpOrg
• https://github.com/busterb
• https://github.com/marcespie
• https://github.com/bsdkurt

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