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It's good to see their regular update cadence bringing new code to the masses without much delay, like OpenSSH 9.0, for example.

I think many people who run other Unix-like OSes don't always realize how much of the code they use regularly comes from the OpenBSD project, even if we don't often run OpenBSD directly.

Thanks, OpenBSD!

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> I think many people who run other Unix-like OSes don't always realize how much of the code they use regularly comes from the OpenBSD project, even if we don't often run OpenBSD directly.

OpenBSD is a huge contributor to the Unix ecosystem. Also, don't forget the top-notch documentation. Even when I'm using Linux at work, I'll still often pull up the OpenBSD man pages because they're so much better.

With mandoc, they've also worked hard on the HTML output. No more fixed with fonts, good layout, internal and external links, and compact. I wish more documentation was like this!

Examples:

http://man.openbsd.org/kqueue

http://man.openbsd.org/acme-client

In their website they mention OpenSSH is a product of their efforts:

> As an example of the effect OpenBSD has, the popular OpenSSH software comes from OpenBSD.

But I think they could reformulate it to illustrate that even more good stuff has been done there and it is used by many

Obligatory link to Peter N.M. Hansteen's presentation "OpenBSD and You". On slide 6, you'll see which operating systems use OpenBSD's code to its benefit.

https://home.nuug.no/~peter/openbsd_and_you/

EDIT:grammar

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