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." Hyper-threading (HT) ...

Ahead of schedule, OpenBSD 6.3 is now available for download. Originally planned to be released on April 15th, the OpenBSD team released it early as "all the components are ready". OpenBSD 6.3 can be ...

Ubuntu 21.10 isn’t the only new release of a free and open source operating system today. The OpenBSD team have also released version 7.0 of their Unix-like operating system based on BSD rather than ...

The latest version of the Unix-like operating system OpenBSD aims to offer better hardware support and adds RAID management capabilities. Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the ...

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 column.

I am planning on building a firewall & router for a 100/7 Mbit/s connection (hence gigabit Ethernet) and need some advice on hardware. OpenBSD will be put on it. The gear that will be in the network ...

OpenBSD, one of the more prominent variants of the BSD family of Unix-like operating systems, will be released at the beginning of September, according to a note on the official OpenBSD website. Often ...

OpenBSD developers have admitted that the organisation is running at a loss and want to increase annual income to continue funding the development of the project's open source operating system.

A former government contractor says that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation installed a number of back doors into the encryption software used by the OpenBSD operating system. The allegations ...

The claim that the FBI planted a backdoor in OpenBSD a decade ago has been flatly denied by developer protagonists named as having been involved in the conspiracy in an email sent to OpenBSD founder, ...

Several big-name Linux and BSD operating systems are vulnerable to an exploit that gives untrusted users powerful root privileges. The critical flaw in the X.org server—the open-source implementation ...

The unused portion of a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to fund development of the open-source operating system OpenBSD has been pulled for unspecified reasons. The project's ...