A cikin watan Disamba na shekarar 1994, an tilasta Theo de Raadt ya yi murabus daga NetBSD core team, kuma an soke damarsa zuwa wurin ajiyar tushe. 'Yan kungiyar sun yi iƙirarin cewa hakan ya faru ne saboda rikice-rikicen mutum a cikin jerin aikawasiku.A watan Oktoba na 1995, de Raadt ya kafa OpenBSD, sabon aikin da aka raba daga NetBSD 1.0. An saki saki na farko, OpenBSD 1.2, a watan Yuli na 1996, sannan OpenBSD 2.0 a watan Oktoba na wannan shekarar. Tun daga wannan lokacin, aikin ya saki saki kowane watanni shida, kowannensu yana tallafawa shekara guda. Tambaya: A wace shekara aka saki OpenBSD 2.0?
Shekarar 1996