Hitchhiker's Guide to Openbsd

Other development tools
Additionally, there are many other development tools available within the base system or as packages or 
ports. A few examples: 
●
Unix shells: ksh and csh in the base system, many others (e.g. zsh, tcsh) in the 
shells
subdirectory of the ports tree. 
●
lint(1)
: a C program verifier, which has been substantially improved from versions before 
OpenBSD 3.9. Linted versions of system libraries are also provided. 
●
"make" utilities: the traditional BSD 
make(1)
 program is in the base system, and the ports tree 
contains other flavors which are required to compile some software. 
●
Graphical toolkits: many popular graphical toolkits (e.g. GTK+, Tk, Qt, wxWidgets, ...) have 
been ported to OpenBSD. They can be found in the 
x11
subdirectory of the ports tree. 
●
Version control systems: GNU CVS as used by the OpenBSD project is in the base system, and 
the ports tree contains a few others. Watch for the new 
OpenCVS
 which is being developed. 
8.4 - What is the ports tree?
Please see 
FAQ 15, Working with ports
. 
8.5 - What are packages?
Please see 
FAQ 15, Package management
. 
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8 - General Questions
8.6 - Should I use Ports or Packages?
Please see 
FAQ 15
. 
8.8 - Is there any way to use my floppy drive if it's not attached 
during boot?
You need to set the kernel to always assume the floppy is attached, even if not detected during the 
hardware probe, by setting the 0x20 flag bit on 
fdc(4)
. This can be done by using 
User Kernel Config
 or 
config(8)
to alter your kernel, 
# config -e -f /bsd
OpenBSD 4.9 (GENERIC) #671: Wed Mar 2 07:09:00 MST 2011
[e-mail]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/
GENERIC
Enter 'help' for information
ukc> change fd*
254 fd* at fdc0 drive -1 flags 0x0
change [n] y
drive [-1] ? ENTER
flags [0] ? 0x20
254 fd* changed
254 fd* at fdc0 drive -1 flags 0x20
ukc> q
Saving modified kernel.
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