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Introducing OpenBSD

The OpenBSD project produces a FREE, multi-platform 4.4BSD-based UNIX-like operating system. Our efforts emphasize portability, standardization, correctness, proactive security and integrated cryptography. OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most programs from SVR4 (Solaris), FreeBSD, Linux, BSD/OS, SunOS and HP-UX.
OpenBSD is a server oriented Os intend to high security level users. With is own great fire-walling tool, pf as a very reliable Os gateway. It is also great for running untrusted programs like user cgis in a web server. It contains stack protection features that make the gain of privileges using buffer overflows very difficult.