How to install Microsoft Windows Fonts on OpenBSD

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.

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OpenBSD 4.7 Officially Released Today

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.

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Building firewalls with OpenBSD and PF (Download Ebook)

This book explains how to build, confiŒgure, and manage IP packet fiŒrewalls using commodity hardware, the OpenBSD operating system, and the Daniel Hartmeier’s pf packet fiŒlter. Its intended audience are network and security administration professionals and the users of the OpenBSD operating system.

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How to Install Gnome Window Manager on OpenBSD

You want to install Gnome as your desktop window manager on OpenBSD.
Simply install gnome-session package using pkg_add tool.

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How to configure xorg config on OpenBSD

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.

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How to install OpenBSD packages directly from an FTP server

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.

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OpenBSD 4.5 Screenshot using GNOME Window Manager

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!”.

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