Here are the hardware platforms that OpenBSD runs on (http://openbsd.org/plat.html http://openbsd.org/plat.html). Not as many as NetBSD, but several. Porting a

Here are the hardware platforms that OpenBSD runs on (http://openbsd.org/plat.html http://openbsd.org/plat.html). Not as many as NetBSD, but several. Porting a program that was written primarily with (say) i386 Debian Linux in mind to other platforms is a great way to find bugs due to incorrect assumptions. They may be asymptomatic on systems with 32-bit processors, the same endian-ness, etc., but they're just lying dormant. Patches from porting and the OpenBSD security audits are contributed upstream, too.