Basically a collection of popular TrueType fonts are already compiled and available in the OpenBSD ports tree, in /usr/ports/x11/msttcorefonts. The ports collection also include other TrueType fonts packages, especially the liberation fonts that can be used as a replacement for the Microsoft Web fonts above and are distributed with a more acceptable license.

You can install the fonts via ports as follow:

# cd /usr/ports/x11/msttcorefonts
# make install

You may need more fonts as Microsoft Windows has. If you use OpenBSD as your main desktop as a daily work OS rather than using Windows or Linux, you will need more fonts to make your desktop good looking with Windows Fonts.
You can easily install the Microsoft Windows fonts on OpenBSD by following this tutorial.
Here are the step by step how to install Windows fonts on OpenBSD.

1. Copy the Microsoft Windows Fonts
First you need to copy all the *.ttf file located at ‘C:\Windows\Fonts’ of Microsoft Windows operating system.
To make it easy to copy / import the fonts into OpenBSD, just zip the folder to be Fonts.zip file then upload it to your FTP / Web server. Later you can download it to OpenBSD system.

2. Store the folder in OpenBSD fonts directory
After getting the Windows fonts using the above step, or whatever way you did to copy into OpenBSD system, store the fonts into OpenBSD fonts directory located in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ and make it WinFonts.

3. And the new fonts path into /etc/X11/xorg.conf
You need to add the fonts path into /etc/X11/xorg.conf file as follow:

Section "Files"
        ...
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/"
        FontPath     "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/WinFonts/"
	...
EndSection

4. To build a fonts.scale file, use the ‘mkfontscale’:

    # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/WinFonts/
    # /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontscale
    # /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir

5. Apply the changes to the current X session

    $ xset fp rehash
    $ xset +fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/WinFonts

Now you are ready to use Microsoft Windows Fonts on OpenBSD. Try to change the default fonts to the MS Windows fonts that we just added before.

For comparation, below are the capture of Mozilla Firefox accessing Yahoo Website before and after using TrueType fonts (MS Windows Fonts).

Before Using Windows Fonts (click to enlarge)

After Using Windows Fonts (click to enlarge)

Reference: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/truetype.html

OpenBSD 4.7 is the latest release of OpenBSD operating system. It was released in May 19, 2010. I have installed OpenBSD 4.7 into my Compaq Presario Laptop triple-booted with Windows 7 Ultimate and Slackware 13.1

Here are some screenshots of OpenBSD 4.7 using XFCE4 Window Manager. Enjoy!!

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The OpenBSD team officially released the OpenBSD 4.7 today. Many new features and improvements have been included in OpenBSD 4.7 such as improved hardware support including revamped SCSI midlayer and improved driver support, new tools newfs_ext2fs for creating ext2 filesystems, and many more.

For more details you can see on OpenBSD webpage.

I already wrote several tutorials about OpenBSD such as how to install Gnome on OpenBSD, install OpenBSD packages directly from an FTP server, etc. You can find the link of these tutorials in the Related Posts of this article or simply search it by using search tool in this website. Enjoy.

You want to install Gnome as your desktop window manager on OpenBSD?
Simply install gnome-session package using pkg_add tool.
In my previous article, I showed you how to set PKG_PATH to an ftp server nearest to you. It must be set first to install any packages on the fly (directly from an ftp server).
OK lets go ahead install gnome-session using pkg_add:

$ sudo pkg_add gnome-session

It will check the dependencies and install them first. Wait for some minutes to all the packages installed successfully.

After gnome-session package installation completed, you have to create/edit .xinitrc file in your home directory and contain only one line ‘exec gnome-session’.

$ echo "exec gnome-session" > ~yourhomedir/.xinitrc

It will make gnome-session as your default window manager.
Run ‘startx’ and you will see gnome-session starting.

To run gdm at boot, write these codes below into /etc/rc.local file:

if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/gdm ]; then
	echo -n ' gdm';		/usr/local/sbin/gdm
fi

You want to run XWindow (Xorg) rather than command line on OpenBSD. Here are the trick.
It should be also applicable for every system running Xorg as the X server like Linux, FreeBSD, Opensolaris, etc.

Login as root and run command below:

# X -configure
[snip messages]
Xorg detected your mouse at device /dev/wsmouse. 
Please check your config if the mouse is still not operational, 
as by default Xorg tries to autodetect the protocol.
Your xorg.conf file is /root/xorg.conf.new. 
To test the server, run 'X -config /root/xorg.conf.new'

If there are no errors and you can see the default xwindow of OpenBSD, the Xorg is successfully configured.
You have to copy the /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf file so you can simply type ‘startx’ via command line to start X window.

You want to install OpenBSD additional packages such as bash, pico, mozilla-firefox and others directly from an ftp server meaning that you do not need to download the packages first and save to your hard disk. In other word, installing the packages on the fly.

It is very easy to do this. We will do this using ‘pkg_add’ tool. One thing you need to know is ‘pkg_add’ will try to search the packages name in the working directory where you type the pkg_add command and also search the dependency of packages that you want to install. If it could not be found, error messages will be prompted.

To force the pkg_add default search to a specific directory or an ftp server, you have to set PKG_PATH value on your current shell. In this case we will set it to an ftp server nearest to you. Since I live in Indonesia I use ftp.openbsd.or.id as my PKG_PATH. For the full list of available FTP servers can be found at http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html.

In your terminal, run this command below:

$ export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.or.id/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/packages/`machine -a`/

Make sure the above command works properly by echoing the command below:

bash-3.2$ echo $PKG_PATH
ftp://ftp.openbsd.or.id/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/packages/i386/

From now you are ready to install OpenBSD packages directly from the ftp server. Try to install some software like bash, pico, wget or others.

bash-3.2$ sudo pkg_add wget
wget-1.11.4: complete

To make PKG_PATH permanently set on your system, edit .profile file in your home directory to be something like this:

# $OpenBSD: dot.profile,v 1.4 2005/02/16 06:56:57 matthieu Exp $
#
# sh/ksh initialization
 
PATH=$HOME/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/games:.
PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.or.id/pub/OpenBSD/4.5/packages/`machine -a`/
export PATH HOME TERM PKG_PATH

Wish this tutorial useful for you. Happy using OpenBSD

OpenBSD is a famous operating system for security purposes because of its secure by default. It is specially the most secure operating system available on the planet and  “Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!”.

Mainly it is used for firewalls, secure servers and other tasks of securing your networks. However, we can use it as workstation OS like Windows and Linux to do daily tasks in your office or home installed in PC or laptop.

Here are some screenshots of OpenBSD 4.5 running on my Compaq Notebook C762NR using Gnome window manager. Enjoy.

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Hardware Profile:
Compaq Presario C762NR
Pentium Dual-Core 1.73GHz, DDRAM 2GB, Intel GMA 965 Chipset