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OpenBSD: Recent history
Release every six months (May and November), most recently OpenBSD 6.0 September 1, 2016 (41st release, 21 years)
Emphasis on security and usability (yes, devs run it on their laptops).
Home of several popular portable products (sub-projects):
- OpenSSH (ssh everywhere, 97% market share)
- OpenNTPD (network time daemon)
- OpenBGPD (routing daemon)
- PF ('firewall' - packet filter plus tools)
- OpenSMTPD (Mail server)
- OpenIKED (VPN key exchange)
- LibreSSL (libtls - remember Heartbleed?)
Also invented hackathons - http://www.openbsd.org/hackathons.html
Since OpenBSD 3.0, every release has a song. OpenBSD 6.0 has 6 to mark end of CD releases