The Birth of OpenBSD
Theo de Raadt was a NetBSD developer. After many strong, broad, and long-running disagreements with other NetBSD team members on how the project should be run, he went out on his own and founded the OpenBSD Project, attracting like-minded developers. The OpenBSD team quickly established an identity as a security-focused group, and it is now one of the best-known BSD descendants.
The OpenBSD team developers have introduced several ideas into the open source operating system world that are now taken for granted, such as public read-only access to the CVS repository and commit logs. They’ve also created several pieces of software that have become industry standards across many operating systems, such as sudo and the ubiquitous ...
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