This quickstart introduces FreeBSD administrators to OpenBSD by mapping familiar concepts to OpenBSD tooling and conventions. It highlights practical differences; it is not an exhaustive comparison nor a discussion of philosophy. The guide assumes OpenBSD 7.7 is already installed and you have command-line access. Shells # On OpenBSD, the default shell for both root and regular users is the Korn shell, ksh(1) . This differs from FreeBSD, where the root account defaults to tcsh. OpenBSD’s ksh...
