ekkoBSD was a Unix-like operating system based on OpenBSD 3.3, also incorporating code from other BSD-like operating systems. Its focus was on security and easy administration. The default installation of ekkoBSD gave you an e-mail server, web server, ssh and several other services that would normally need to be added and secured.

The project was founded and managed by Rick Collette, and coded by a handful of programmers.

A concept that had been with ekkoBSD since its beginning were the implementations of Single Servers . These are much like the single-floppy firewalls, rescue discs, etc. found within PicoBSD.

The ekkoBSD project s end was announced on the home page on July 18, 2004.