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Proyectos que se originaron de OpenBSD, con numeros de bug irrisorios

Con el paso del tiempo y la evolución de OpenBSD, sus principales desarrolladores (liderado por Theo de Raadt)  han incursionado en proyectos que a consecuencia aportan mucho a la comunidad del software libre, incluso usuarios de windows.

Entre los principales destacados son:

OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, mandoc, LibreSSL.

Citando cada uno de estos proyectos:

  • OpenSSH is the premier connectivity tool for remote login with the SSH protocol. 
  • OpenBGPD is a FREE implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol, Version 4. It allows ordinary machines to be used as routers exchanging routes with other systems speaking the BGP protocol.  
  • OpenNTPD is a FREE, easy to use implementation of the Network Time Protocol. It provides the ability to sync the local clock to remote NTP servers and can act as NTP server itself, redistributing the local clock. 
  • OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the server-side SMTP protocol as defined by RFC 5321, with some additional standard extensions. It allows ordinary machines to exchange emails with other systems speaking the SMTP protocol.
  • OpenIKED is a FREE implementation of the Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2) protocol which performs mutual authentication and which establishes and maintains IPsec VPN security policies and associations (SAs) between peers. The IKEv2 protocol is defined in RFC 5996, which combines and updates the previous standards: ISAKMP/Oakley (RFC 2408), IKE (RFC 2409), and the Internet DOI (RFC 2407). OpenIKED only supports the IKEv2 protocol; support for ISAKMP/Oakley and IKEv1 is provided by OpenBSD’s isakmpd(8)or other implementations on non-OpenBSD platforms.  
  • mandoc is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro language of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals. It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast. The main component of the toolset is the mandoc utility program, based on the libmandoc validating compiler, to format output for UNIX terminals (with support for wide-character locales), XHTML, HTML, PostScript, and PDF.

    mandoc has predominantly been developed on OpenBSD and is both an OpenBSD and a BSD.lv project. We strive to support all interested free operating systems, in particular FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly, illumos, Minix 3, and GNU/Linux, as well as all systems running the pkgsrc portable package build system. To support mandoc development, consider donating to the OpenBSD foundation.   

  • LibreSSL is a version of the TLS/crypto stack forked from OpenSSL in 2014, with goals of modernizing the codebase, improving security, and applying best practice development processes.
    Primary development occurs inside the OpenBSD source tree with the usual care the project is known for.
    On a regular basis the code is re-packaged for portable use by other operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, etc).

    Muchos usuarios Linux desconocen el fondo de como se han originado estos flamantes proyectos para la ciencia en computacion