OpenBSD has some cool features built in you would have to separately install on most other operating systems.

This is just an overview of what we consider VCFs – Very Cool Features of OpenBSD.

In no particular order:

  • mg(1) : Very fast editor with Emacs-like behaviour – in addition to everybody’s vi(1). This is one of the first applications I usually install on other operating systems. It does not support german Umlauts, though (but for Umlauts and very much more the real Emacs is available via pkg_add(1)).
  • ldapd(8) : A lightweight LDAP server! Built in! This is very, very cool! Everybody else has to install OpenLDAP – and deal with it…
  • acme-client(1) : Support for Let’s Encrypt TLS certificate management. Since OpenBSD also comes with an httpd(8) server this is only consequent – very cool nevertheless.
  • To be continued…

I’ll post more about all of these when I find time.