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story, explains the importance of the hackathons and how the 2003

hackathon was different from the past ones that had a "mission",

like replacing ipf with pf at the Boston hackathon. Opposed to that, this

year's hackathon didn't hava a mission, but rather around 20 teams working

year's hackathon didn't have a mission, but rather around 20 teams working

on different projects and forming new teams later to attack other problems.

He describes a "very complex and intense climate" and points out

that support for AMD Hammer, UltraSPARC III, SMP and Mozilla was done.

Theo also talks about the DARPA funding cut and its effects - basically

that funding will work like it did before the grant, through

CD, T-Shirt and Poster sales as well as donations.

Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo desribes his role in OpenBSD

Asked about Linus Torvald's role in Linux Theo describes his role in OpenBSD

as a "friendly dictator" who is involved in all major

decisions.

A further topic is, naturally, security. Theo points out that an absolutely

secure system would imply a bugfree system and thus is not possible, and

briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focusses on the

briefly explains ProPolice and W^X. A small followup article focuses on the

basics of ProPolice and W^X.

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also shows that the international pool of computer programmers and

hackers, possessing vast technological expertise, is not entirely

sympathetic to the American military's current role in world

affairs." Notes the discrepency between DARPA's public position

affairs." Notes the discrepancy between DARPA's public position

and what the people working on the UPenn project have been told.

Describes Theo de Raadt as "A respected Canadian computer programmer ...

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Slate,

March 3, 2003.

Brendan Koerner's thorough dissmissal of the total unreality and FUD

Brendan Koerner's thorough dismissal of the total unreality and FUD

surrounding the Bush Administration's recent

<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/pcipb/">National Strategy

to Secure Cyberspace</a>, NIPC, vendors and others who profit by

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examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from

its source tree altogether. But "code talks, and OpenBSD has

spoken quite eloquently in the past", writes Somogyi. Later

on the article he comments on the team's licence audit through

on the article he comments on the team's license audit through

the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his

tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.

To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the

To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licencs has meant for the

Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes

a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an

"unheralded open source success story".

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In a long-ish article subtitled "For security, scaling,

consider a BSD OS", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the

BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project

BSDs. Mostly he summarizes the history and quotes the various project

web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit

non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.

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Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems

in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist

in terms of usability and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist

installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to

say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and

the IP filtering and address translation.