Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid

Many people maintain websites dedicated to OpenBSD, or related to OpenBSD, or generally useful to the OpenBSD Project. Any time you have a problem or are trying to understand something, check out these sites for more information. Read third-party documentation carefully and skeptically, however. Anyone can put up a website, and that person can say anything on that site. Tutorials and articles outside of the OpenBSD Project may contain erroneous information, or tutorials that only work in the author's particular situation.

Here are a few popular ones at the time I write this.

• Google BSD (http://www.google.com/bsd/): The Google search engine is one of the most powerful support tools for OpenBSD — or for any piece of software, actually. Google has indexed not only the main OpenBSD website, but also a variety of OpenBSD mailing list archives, third-party websites, and newsgroups. Google is your friend. If you ask someone for help, they will almost always point you to Google. Use it.

• Monkey.org (http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/): This is one of the oldest OpenBSD sites, and a fair chunk of the material here is somewhat dated as of this writing. It contains searchable archives of the OpenBSD mailing lists, which are very valuable. We'll discuss the mailing lists a little later.

• Daemon News (http://www.daemonnews.org/): Daemon News provides a daily news board and monthly ezine devoted to all things BSD, including OpenBSD. Much of the information presented at Daemon News is quite applicable to OpenBSD.

• BSD Forums (http://www.bsdforums.org/): BSD Forums indexes news stories about all sorts of BSD and hosts discussion threads about the articles.

• The OpenBSD Journal (http://www.deadly.org/): This website contains articles, comments, and questions related to OpenBSD. It is an excellent resource for all things OpenBSD.

• O'Reilly Network BSD Developer Center (http://www.onlamp.com/bsd/): This O'Reilly-sponsored site hosts a variety of OpenBSD and general BSD articles, including the column Big Scary Daemons by yours truly.