Foreword

I got my OpenBSD account as a developer in 2002, more than 10 years ago. Over this time, quite a number of OpenBSD-related books have been published. Some were actually good, but many were not and were full of factual errors. I kept asking myself (and others) why these authors never approached us for fact-checking before publishing.

I have known Michael for a long time as well—many, many years. Both of us frequently visit BSD-related conferences, and we often end up having a beer together, which is always fun. I did read the first edition of Absolute OpenBSD when it was published, a long time ago, and quite frankly, I don’t remember anything from it. That’s a good thing in this case, because I would have remembered if it had been ...

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