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Originally Posted by milo974

when i type in console : uname -a
i have output :
OpenBSD bsdgate 4.3 GENERIC#698 i386

is it normally that it is not wrote : release or stable ?

This is partially correct. The output of the following commands:

• $ uname -a
• $ sysctl kern.version

...will display nothing when running -release. In comparison, running -stable which will appear as 4.3-stable or 4.3-current when running -current.

Why i have GENERIC ?

...because the standard configuration file for the kernel is /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC assuming you are running on the i386 platform. The default configuration of the kernel can be found in /usr/src/sys/arch/`uname -m`/conf/GENERIC on all platforms.

Many related questions can be answered by studying Section 5 of the FAQ:

http://openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html