OpenBSD is about the most minimalist of the modern FOSS Unix-like OSes. Version 7.7 has just come out, and as usual, the release notes are comprehensive, with an extensive list of updates.

OpenBSD has a collection of software available as add-on binary packages. They’re not screened for security in the same way that the OS itself is, but OpenBSD’s maintainers try to keep those ...

Project lead Theo de Raadt termed this release the OpenBSD of Theseus. With version 7.6, there are no unmodified files left from the original code forked from NetBSD 1.0 in 1995. The reference is ...

One of the OpenBSD developers that Perry mentions in his email to De Raadt is a man named Jason L. Wright, who co-authored the original paper on the OpenBSD Cryptographic Framework in 2003.

OpenBSD 7.6 now also implements extensions against Spectre-4 for ARM64 and Spectre-BJB for the Cortex-A57 (e.g. Opteron A1100, Snapdragon 8120, Samsung Octa 5433 or Nvidia Tegra X1).

The main developer of OpenBSD has announced that Intel chips will have hyperthreading disabled on the operating system in order to ward off potential Spectre-like exploits that take advantage of ...

Step-by-step instructions for installing OpenBSD 4.0 for Windows admins trying to do it for the first time. I’ve already had a lot of positive feedback on my support for OpenBSD in my recent ...

The OpenBSD project announced today plans to disable support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more "Spectre-class bugs." ...

"OpenBSD's idea would go even further [than current Windows kernel protections] as everyone would have a unique kernel binary as well," Wosar said in a private conversation with Bleeping Computer.

The OpenBSD 5.6 announcement of LibreSSL is dominated by a long list of features not supported, such as: FIPS-140 compliance Support for MacOS, Netware, OS/2, VMS and Windows platforms, as well as ...

The developers behind OpenBSD, the secure Unix-like operating system, are due to release version 3.6 on 1 November, which for the first time includes symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support. Theo ...