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Old 3rd August 2010
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The sources I have quoted to you are vetted by the overall OpenBSD community.

Be forewarned that if you Google for OpenBSD information, you may find a lot of stuff, but much of it is old, out-of-date, incomplete, or simply wrong. OpenBSD is a moving target, & staying informed has its challenges. Part of that challenge is knowing who/what to trust, & where to remain skeptical of its validity.
  • In general, the *BSD family places great importance on the correctness of its manpages. Being a small project, OpenBSD considers its manpages to be the definitive source of truth outside of the source code itself.
  • Information found on the offficial mailing lists -- when uttered by the project developers -- should be considered definitive as well.
  • Project documentation (such as the FAQ & User's Guide) would come next in terms of trustworthiness.
  • Third-party sites (like this one...) attempt to provide correct information, but few if any project developers visit these sites, so you will have to gauge the amount of truthfulness with anything not officially associated with the project yourself.
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