Multiple architectures A.K.A. "Did you test it on sparc64?" OpenBSD supports 16 hardware platforms covering 12 CPU architectures, and a few more are in development. All our architectures are built natively. 'make build' is a good stress test this turns up architecture-specific issues Developing for multiple hardware platforms will help catch bugs, even if they're not your current target market. For OpenBSD, porting to a new platform typically reveals a significant number of Machine Independant bugs.