OpenCON The only conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD.
LiveUSB image with OpenBSD - carry your OS on a memory stick My friend Girish Venkatachalam of SpamCheetah has created two
USB bootable OpenBSD images for download. LiveUSB-OpenBSDFull
for 2GB and LiveUSB-OpenBSDLite for 1GB. Check them out. UPDATE: There are now 4 images; Absolute Minimal, Minimal, Lite, and Full.
FreeBSD FreeBSD® is an advanced operating system for x86 compatible
(including Pentium® and Athlon™), amd64 compatible
(including Opteron™, Athlon™64, and EM64T), UltraSPARC®,
IA-64, PC-98 and ARM architectures.
NetBSD NetBSD is a free, secure, and highly portable Unix-like Open Source
operating system available for many platforms, from large-scale
server systems to powerful desktop systems to handheld and
embedded devices.
Jibbed Zafer Aydogan has announced the first beta release of Jibbed 5,
a NetBSD-based live CD with Xfce: "I'm proud to present you
the latest Jibbed 5 beta release composed from the finest
NetBSD 5 branch.
DragonFlyBSD DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based
on FreeBSD. DragonFly branched from FreeBSD in 2003 in order to
develop a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and
most other kernel subsystems.
A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor,
author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience
administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint,
SCO, Solaris, Linux and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the
popularFreeBSD Basicscolumn for O'Reilly and
is author ofBSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics . . More about Dru
BSDCertification Group
BSDCG - (BSD Certification Group) is comprised of educators, writers
and sysadmins who are well versed in and passionate about BSD systems.
Executive Officer Dru Lavigne.
BSD Talk Podcasts Will Blackman's Blog - Talks on the BSD family of free operating systems.
BSD on Slashdot News for nerds, stuff that matters. BSD related announcements, posts,
and discussions.
FrenzyBSD Frenzy is a "portable system administrator toolkit," LiveCD based on
FreeBSD. It generally contains software for hardware tests, file system
check, security check and network setup and analysis.
Quetzal live DVD/CD Quetzal is a live DVD/CD system, based on OpenBSD. The system contains
a full OpenBSD installation, and a collection of selected applications.
The window manager of choice is WindowMaker. Its geometrical simplicity,
modularity, performance, stability and internal architecture, match nicely
with the philosophy of OpenBSD and UNIX in general.
OliveBSD LiveCD OliveBSD is a LiveCD based on OpenBSD 3.8 with graphical environment
and various softwares (see list).
FreeSBIE LiveCD FreeSBIE is a LiveCD based on the FreeBSD Operating system, or even easier,
a FreeBSD-based operating system that works directly from a CD, without
touching your hard drive.
MirosBSD MirOS BSD is a secure operating system from the BSD family for 32-bit i386
and sparc systems. Based on 4.4BSD-Lite (mostly OpenBSD, some NetBSD®).
TrueBSD LiveCD TrueBSD is a LiveDVD operating system based on the FreeBSD operating
system ( http://www.freebsd.org ) with many useful applications.
PC-BSD PC-BSD is a free operating system with ease of use in mind. Like any modern
system, you can listen to your favorite music, watch your movies, work with
office documents and install your favorite applications with a setup wizard
at a click.
DesktopBSD DesktopBSD aims at being a stable and powerful operating system for desktop
users. DesktopBSD combines the stability of FreeBSD, the usability and the
functionality ofKDEand the simplicity of specially developed software to
provide a system that's easy to use and install.
Distrowatch Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. Latest distro information,
reviews, download links.
MidnightBSD MidnightBSD is a desktop operating system for x86 compatible (including
Pentium® and Athlon™), and soon amd64 compatible (including Opteron™,
Athlon™64, and EM64T) architectures. It was originally based onFreeBSD
6.1 Beta. The goal of the project is to create a BSD with ease of use and
simplicity in mind.
RoFreeSBIE RoFreeSBIE - The Live DVD or CD based on FreeBSD Operating System.
Linux-BSD-Central Linux-BSD-Central - Linux and FreeBSD related news and help.
Welcome to www.bsd.org Providing a variety of resources for users of the various commercial and
freely-available bsd operating systems.
BSDstats Project Compiling semi-accurate numbers for advocacy and marketing of the
*BSD operating systems.
Damn Small BSD DSBSD is a small (50mb or less) FreeBSD live-CD desktop environment
geared towards developers and sysadmins.
BSDanywhere BSDanywhere is a bootable Live-CD image based on OpenBSD. It consists
of the entire OpenBSD base system (without compiler) plus graphical desktop,
an unrepresentative collection of software, automatic hardware detection
and support for many graphics cards, sound cards, SCSI and USB devices
as well as other peripherals.
Flashdist :: Embedded OpenBSD Installer Flashdist is an embedded OpenBSD installer. It will install OpenBSD onto
any attached disk, IDE or USB CompactFlash adapter, vnode pseudo disk
device, or hard disk.
BowlFish - OpenBSD Installer for embedded systems BowlFish is a customized OpenBSD installation script for embedded systems.
It is intended to make OpenBSD fit into the small media (e.g. compact flash
cards) that typically come together with embedded systems, like Soekris and WRAP boards.
gotBSD? Torrents Site is dedicated to helping you get and share the latest BSD CD images via
BitTorrent protocol. PC-BSD, FreeBSD & FreeSBIE.
Has some BSD related links, too.
OpenBSD Wiki The goal of OpenBSD-Wiki.org is to document anything related to OpenBSD
that is not already in the FAQ or will make the life of an OpenBSD user easier.
OpenBSD 101 Last but not least, my kind host. ;) The goal of this site is to attract new
users to OpenBSD by providing useful information for first time users.
Excellent tutorials, links, information.