You’ve bought this book, so you now possess all the information you will ever need about OpenBSD. You hold in your hands the ultimate repository of all OpenBSD wisdom and acumen, and once you complete it, you will be lord and master of all that OpenBSD offers. Right?

Sorry, no. No one book can possibly contain everything there is to know about OpenBSD. UNIX is pushing 40 years old, and BSD operating systems have been around for more than 30 years. OpenBSD itself is over 15 years old, and is built on decades of tradition, knowledge, and community development. You won’t master it with any single book. You might master it with a room full of books and a few years of study, if you stop wasting time on trivialities like having a family and avoiding scurvy.

The OpenBSD community maintains a wide variety of information sources. Some, such as the manual, are integrated with the OpenBSD operating system. The OpenBSD team maintains additional resources, such as the main OpenBSD website and the official OpenBSD mailing lists. Users and devotees maintain additional websites, mailing lists, and documentation. The flood of information can overwhelm experienced users and intimidate new users so badly that they don’t even try to sort through it. That’s why this chapter will take your hand and lead you through some of the other resources available.^[3]