OpenBSD Book Suggestions

An anonymous reader writes "An OpenBSD book is being written and the author is looking for content suggestions to include in the book. It would be nice if the slashdot community suggested a bit or two. ;)"

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a book?

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Now granted, what I don't know about OpenBSD could fill a book, but I'm curious as to whether there's really enough of an audience for such a book. Linux has only recently reached the point where books devoted to it (including the excellent Linux Kernel Internals) were justified, even by such geekly heavyweights as O'Reilly. Not only is OpenBSD used by a tiny slice of the small, and continuously dwindling, community of *BSD users, but it is used primarily in routers and firewalls, by experienced Unix users.

I'd think a book would be more likely to succeed if it were on an OS distribution that is popular with newbies, enjoys a large market share, and is used on the desktop. OpenBSD is the opposite of all of these, and their financial woes are pronounced enough that this could be the mistake that finally puts them under. You don't have to be an economist to see that the market just isn't there. This is why *BSD continues to falter, even as Linux's popularity explodes.