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30: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
31: <dl>
1.16 louis 32:
1.210 jufi 33: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.215 ! horacio 34:
1.210 jufi 35: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
36: <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011002/tc/how_code_red_revealed_the_perils_of_port_80_1.html">
37: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
38: </strong></font><br>
1.215 ! horacio 39:
! 40: In an article about the effects and consequences of the Code
! 41: Red worm which attacked Webservers running the IIS from
! 42: Microsoft, the merits of reliability instead of new features
1.210 jufi 43: are discussed. As a positive example they use OpenBSD.
1.215 ! horacio 44: <p>
! 45:
! 46: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
! 47:
! 48: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 49: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
! 50: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
! 51: </strong></font><br>
! 52:
! 53: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
! 54: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
! 55: security and says that even secured operating systems running
! 56: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
! 57: to time.<br>
! 58: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
! 59: system and just the most secure system.
! 60: <p>
! 61:
! 62: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 63: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
! 64: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
! 65: </strong></font><br>
! 66:
! 67: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
! 68: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
! 69: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
! 70: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
! 71: choice:<br>
! 72: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
! 73: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
! 74: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
! 75: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
! 76: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
! 77: network security devices and as such must be well
! 78: armored."</em><br>
! 79: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
! 80: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
! 81: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
! 82: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
! 83: <br>
! 84: Bravo!
! 85: <p>
1.210 jufi 86:
1.207 ian 87: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.215 ! horacio 88:
1.207 ian 89: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
90: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
91: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
92: </strong></font>
1.215 ! horacio 93:
1.207 ian 94: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
95: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 96: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 97: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
98: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
99: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 100: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 ! horacio 101: <p>
1.207 ian 102:
1.194 jufi 103: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
104:
105: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 106: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
107: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
108: </strong></font><br>
1.215 ! horacio 109:
1.213 horacio 110: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb adresses the question
111: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
112: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
113: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
114: <p>
115:
116: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.212 horacio 117: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2772049,00.html">
1.201 horacio 118: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
119: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
120: </strong></font><br>
1.215 ! horacio 121:
1.201 horacio 122: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF licence and
1.206 ian 123: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 124: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
125: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
126: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 127: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 128: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
129: <br>
130: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
131: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
132: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
133: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
134: <p>
135:
136: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 137: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
138: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 139: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 140: </strong></font><br>
1.215 ! horacio 141:
1.194 jufi 142: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
143: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
144: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
145: <br>
146: The new
147: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 148: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
149: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on
150: logdaemon!<br>
1.194 jufi 151:
1.190 horacio 152: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
153:
154: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 155:
156: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
157: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
158:
159: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
160: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
161:
162: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
163: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
164:
1.212 horacio 165: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
166: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 167: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
168:
1.211 horacio 169: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
170: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 171: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
172:
173: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
174: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
175:
176: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
177: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
178:
1.212 horacio 179: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
180: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 181: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
182:
183: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
184: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
185:
186: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
187: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
188:
189: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
190: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
191:
192: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 193: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 194:
1.192 jufi 195: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
196: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 197: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 198:
1.193 deraadt 199: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
200: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 201: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 202:
1.196 deraadt 203: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
204: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
205:
1.198 pvalchev 206: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
207: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
208: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
209:
1.213 horacio 210: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
211: OpenBSD gets brand-new packet filter</a> <em>(Slashdot echoes OpenBSD <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=pf&sektion=4">pf(4)</a> development.)</em>,
212: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
213:
1.190 horacio 214: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 215: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
216: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
217: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
218: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
219: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
220: <p>
1.190 horacio 221:
1.191 jufi 222: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.212 horacio 223: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010516.html"> -->
224: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD,
1.195 jufi 225: SecurityPortal, May 16, 2001
226: </strong></font><br>
1.215 ! horacio 227:
1.195 jufi 228: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.212 horacio 229: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010509.html"> -->"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"
1.195 jufi 230: , Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good programming is more important than dozens of features and
231: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
232: <p>
233:
234: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 235: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082320,00.html">
236: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
237: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
238: </strong></font><br>
1.215 ! horacio 239:
1.191 jufi 240: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
241: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
242: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
243: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 244: <p>
245:
1.191 jufi 246:
1.186 jufi 247: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 248:
1.186 jufi 249: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
250: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 251: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
252: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 253: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 254:
1.188 jufi 255: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 256: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 257: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 258: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
259: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 260: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 261: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 262: <p>
263:
1.191 jufi 264:
265: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 266: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20010405.html?&_ref=36874758"> -->
267: Abandon hope all ye who enter here,
1.191 jufi 268: Security Portal, April 05, 2001
269: </strong></font><br>
270:
271: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
272: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
273: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
274: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
275: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
276: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
277: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
278: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
279: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
280: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
281: familiar?
282: <p>
283:
1.178 louis 284: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
285:
286: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 287: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
288: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 289: </strong></font><br>
290:
291: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
292: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
293: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
294: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
295: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
296: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
297: <p>
298:
1.179 louis 299: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
300: <a
1.182 louis 301: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
302: </strong></font><br>
303:
304: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
305: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
306: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
307: <p>
308:
309: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
310: <a
1.179 louis 311: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
312: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
313: </strong></font><br>
314:
315: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
316: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
317: <p>
318:
1.174 louis 319:
1.175 louis 320: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
321:
322: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
323: <a
1.179 louis 324: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
325: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
326: </strong></font><br>
327:
328: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
329: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
330: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
331: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
332: <p>
333:
334: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
335: <a
1.183 ian 336: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 337: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
338: </strong></font><br>
339:
340: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 341: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 342: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
343: <p>
344:
1.176 louis 345:
1.172 mickey 346: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
347:
348: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 349: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 350: </strong></font><br>
351:
352: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
353: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
354: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 355: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 356: <p>
357:
358: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
359: <a
1.174 louis 360: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
361: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
362: </strong></font><br>
363:
364: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
365: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
366: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
367: <p>
368:
369: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
370: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
371: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
372: </strong></font><br>
373:
374: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
375: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
376: <p>
377:
378: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
379: <a
380: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
381: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
382: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
383: </strong></font><br>
384:
385: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
386: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
387: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
388: our own Theo de Raadt.
389: <p>
390:
391: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
392: <a
393: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
394: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
395: </strong></font><br>
396:
397: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
398: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
399: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
400: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
401: shut down.]
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
405: <a
1.206 ian 406: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo de Raadt,
1.172 mickey 407: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 408: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 409: </strong></font><br>
410:
411: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
412: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
413: <p>
414:
1.161 louis 415: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
416:
1.175 louis 417: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
418: <a
419: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
420: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
421: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
422: </strong></font><br>
423:
424: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
425: by John Wolley
426: <p>
427:
428: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
429: <a
430: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
431: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
432: </strong></font><br>
433:
434: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
435: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
436: OpenBSD).
437: <p>
438:
1.161 louis 439: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
440: <a
1.171 louis 441: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
442: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
443: </strong></font><br>
444:
445: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
446: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
447: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
448: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
449: and hindsight.
450: <p>
451:
452: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 453: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
454: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
455: </strong></font><br>
456:
457: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
458: <p>
459:
460: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.171 louis 461: <a
1.168 provos 462: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
463: December 7, 2000
464: </strong></font><br>
465:
466: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
467: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
468: us explain.
469: <p>
470:
471: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 472: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html"> -->
473: System and Network Security - Kernel Options,
474: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 475: December 6, 2000
476: </strong></font><br>
477:
478: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
479: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
480: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
481: <p>
482:
483: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
484: <a
1.162 millert 485: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
486: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
487: </strong></font><br>
488:
489: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 490: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 491: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 492: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
493: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
494: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
495: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 496: <p>
1.162 millert 497:
498: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
499: <a
1.161 louis 500: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
501: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
502: </strong></font><br>
503:
504: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
505: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
506: <p>
507:
1.169 louis 508: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
509: <a
510: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
511: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
512: </strong></font><br>
513:
514: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
515: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
516: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
517: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
518: <p>
519:
1.158 louis 520: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 521:
522: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 523: <a
1.175 louis 524: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
525: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
526: </strong></font><br>
527:
528: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
529: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
530: <p>
531:
532: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
533: <a
1.164 deraadt 534: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 535: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 536: </strong></font><br>
537: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
538: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
539: <p>
540:
541: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
542: <a
543: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
544: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
545: </strong></font><br>
546:
547: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
548: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
549: <p>
550:
551: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 552: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 553: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
554: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 555:
1.213 horacio 556: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 557: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
558: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
559: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
560: <p>
1.215 ! horacio 561:
1.174 louis 562: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
563: <a
564: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
565: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
566: </strong></font><br>
567:
568: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
569: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
570: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
571: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
572: much of the attitude too).
573: <p>
1.161 louis 574:
575: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 576: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
577: BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 578: </strong></font><br>
1.215 ! horacio 579:
1.157 louis 580: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
581: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
582: <p>
583:
584: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
585:
586: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 587: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
588: Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 589: </strong></font><br>
590:
591: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
592: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
593: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
594: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
595: <p>
596:
597: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
598: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
599: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
600: </strong></font><br>
601:
602: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
603: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
604: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
605: it because they love coding...
606: <p>
607:
608: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
609: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
610: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
611: </strong></font><br>
612:
613: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
614: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
615: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
616: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
617: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
618: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
619: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
620: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
621: <p>
622:
623: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 624: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
625: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
626: </strong></font><br>
627:
628: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
629: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
630: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
631: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
632: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
633: the pizza.
634: <p>
635:
636: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 637: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
638: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
639: </strong></font><br>
640:
641: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
642: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
643: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
644: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
645: problems.
646: <p>
647:
648: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 649: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
650: </strong></font><br>
651:
652: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
653: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
654: - whether they like it or not.
655: <p>
656:
657: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 658: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
659: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
660: </strong></font><br>
661:
662: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
663: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
664: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 665: <p>
1.148 aaron 666:
667: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 668: <a href="http://www.networkmagazine.com/article/NMG20001003S0001/1">The Pros and Cons of Posting Vulnerabilities</a>, Network Magazine, October 5, 2000
1.156 louis 669: </strong></font><br>
670:
671: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
672: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
673: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
674: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
675: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
676: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
677: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
678: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
679: <p>
680:
681: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 682: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
683: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 684: </strong></font><br>
685:
686: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
687: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
688: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
689: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
690: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
691: <p>
692:
1.138 louis 693: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
694:
695: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 696: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 697: System Takes On Linux</a>,
698: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
699: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 700: </strong></font><br>
701:
1.146 louis 702: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
703: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
704: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
705: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
706: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
707: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
708: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 709: <p>
710:
711: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.200 niklas 712: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
713: System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
714: </strong></font><br>
715:
716: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
717: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
718: groups, and even Linux.
719: <p>
720:
721: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 722: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
723: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
724: </strong></font><br>
725:
726: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
727: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
728: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
729: library after installing the OS.
730: <p>
731:
732: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 733: OpenBSD as a VPN Solution <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 734: Sys Admin, September 2000
735: </strong></font><br>
736:
737: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
738: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
739: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
740: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
741: (<a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=vpn&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">vpn(8)</a>,
742: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
743: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
744: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=isakmpd&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">isakmpd(8)</a>) and the OpenBSD
1.189 horacio 745: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 746: out of the system.
747: <p>
748:
1.144 louis 749: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
750: <a href="http://www.osOpinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD, OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, September 2000
751: </strong></font><br>
752:
753: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 754: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
755: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
756: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
757: the IP filtering and address translation.
758: <p>
759:
1.131 louis 760: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
761:
762: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 763: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
764: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
765: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 766: </strong></font><br>
767:
768: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
769: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
770: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
771: <p>
772:
773: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 774: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
775: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
776: </strong></font><br>
777:
778: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
779: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
780: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
781: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
782: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
783: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
784: note of"</i>.
785: <p>
786:
787: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 788: <a
789: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
790: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
791: </strong></font><br>
792:
793: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
794: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
795: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
796: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 800: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 801: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
802: </strong></font><br>
803:
804: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
805: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
806: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
807: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
808: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
809: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
810: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
811: <p>
812:
813: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 814: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
815: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
816: 2000
817: </strong></font><br>
818:
819: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
820: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
821: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
822: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
823: against current industry practices.
824: <p>
825:
826: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 827: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/08/OpenBSD.html">An Overview of OpenBSD Security</a>, OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 8, 2000
828: </strong></font><br>
829:
830: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
831: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
832: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
833: <p>
834:
835: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 836: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
837: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
838: </strong></font><br>
839:
840: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
841: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
842: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
843: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
844: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
845: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
846: careful code reviews, he concludes.
847: <p>
848:
849: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 850: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
851: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
852: </strong></font><br>
853:
854: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
855: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
856: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
857: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
858: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 859: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
860: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
861: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 862: <p>
863:
1.118 louis 864: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
865:
866: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 867: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
868: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
869: </strong></font><br>
870:
871: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
872: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
873: about time. The article mentions that
874: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
875: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
876: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 877: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 878: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
879: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 880: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 881: <p>
882:
883: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 884: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 885: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 886: </strong></font><br>
887:
888: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
889: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
890: of OpenSSH.
891: <p>
892:
893: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 894: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
895: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 896: </strong></font><br>
897:
898: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 899: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 900: bridging.
901: <p>
902:
903: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
904: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
905: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 906: </strong></font><br>
907:
1.121 deraadt 908: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
909: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 910: <p>
911:
912: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 913: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
914: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
915: </strong></font><br>
916:
917: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
918: <p>
919:
920: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 921: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 922: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
923: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 924: </strong></font><br>
925:
1.120 deraadt 926: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
927: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 928: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
929: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
930: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
931: <p>
932:
933: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 934: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
935: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
936: </strong></font><br>
937:
938: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
939: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
940: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
941: protocols and their quirks.
942: <p>
943:
944: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 945: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
946: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 947: </strong></font><br>
948:
949: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
950: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
951: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 952: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 953: <p>
954:
955: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 956: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
957: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
958: </strong></font><br>
959:
960: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
961: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
962: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
963: <p>
964:
965: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 966: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 967: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
968: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 969: </strong></font><br>
970:
971: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
972: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
973: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
974: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
975: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
976: <p>
977:
1.104 louis 978: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
979:
1.113 naddy 980: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 981: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
982: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
983: </strong></font><br>
984:
985: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
986: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
987: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
988: be a bit dry.
989: <p>
990:
991: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 992: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
993: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
994: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
995: </strong></font><br>
996: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
997: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
998: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
999: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1000: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1001: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1002: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1003: <p>
1004:
1005: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1006: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1007: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1008: 2000
1.128 louis 1009: </strong></font><br>
1010:
1011: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1012: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1013: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1014: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1015: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1016: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1017: <p>
1018:
1019: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1020: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1021: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1022: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1023:
1024: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1025: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1026: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1027: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1028: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1029: <p>
1.110 louis 1030:
1.117 louis 1031: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1032: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1033: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1034: </strong></font><br>
1035:
1036: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1037: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1038: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1039: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1040: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1041: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1042: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1043: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1044: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1045: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1046: <p>
1047:
1.113 naddy 1048: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 1049: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1050: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1051:
1052: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1053: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1054: <p>
1.108 louis 1055:
1.113 naddy 1056: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 1057: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1058: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1059: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1060:
1061: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1062: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1063: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1064: <p>
1.106 louis 1065:
1.113 naddy 1066: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 1067: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1068: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1069: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1070:
1071: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1072: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1073: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1074: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1075: <p>
1.107 louis 1076:
1.113 naddy 1077: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 ! horacio 1078: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
! 1079: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1080: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1081:
1082: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1083: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1084: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1085: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1086: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1087: <p>
1.105 louis 1088:
1.113 naddy 1089: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1090: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1091: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1092: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1093:
1.113 naddy 1094: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1095: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1096: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1097: <p>
1.104 louis 1098:
1.121 deraadt 1099: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1100: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1101: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1102: </strong></font><br>
1103:
1104: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1105: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1106: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1107: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1108: <p>
1109:
1.85 louis 1110: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1111:
1.113 naddy 1112: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1113: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1114: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1115: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1116:
1117: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1118: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1119: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1120: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1121: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1122: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1123: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1124: <p>
1.99 louis 1125:
1.113 naddy 1126: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1127: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1128: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1129: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1130:
1131: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1132: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1133: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1134: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1135: <p>
1.100 louis 1136:
1.113 naddy 1137: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1138: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1139: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1140: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1141:
1142: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1143: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1144: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1145: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1146: <p>
1.95 louis 1147:
1.113 naddy 1148: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1149: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1150: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1151: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1152:
1153: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1154: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1155: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1156: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1157: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1158: <p>
1.92 louis 1159:
1.113 naddy 1160: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1161: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1162: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1163: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1164:
1165: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1166: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1167: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1168: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1169: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1170: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1171: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1172: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1173: <p>
1.91 louis 1174:
1.113 naddy 1175: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1176: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1177: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1178: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1179:
1180: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1181: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1182: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1183: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1184: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1185: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1186: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1187: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1188: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1189: <p>
1.90 louis 1190:
1.113 naddy 1191: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1192: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1193: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1194: </strong></font><br>
1195: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1196: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1197: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1198: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1199: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1200: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1201: <p>
1202:
1203: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1204: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1205: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1206: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1207:
1.113 naddy 1208: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1209: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1210: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1211: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1212: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1213: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1214: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1215: <p>
1.87 louis 1216:
1.113 naddy 1217: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1218: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1219: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1220: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1221:
1222: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1223: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1224: <p>
1.85 louis 1225:
1.113 naddy 1226: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1227: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1228: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1229: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1230:
1231: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1232: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1233: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1234: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1235: <p>
1.89 louis 1236:
1.113 naddy 1237: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1238: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1239: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1240: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1241:
1242: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1243: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1244: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1245: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1246: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1247:
1.78 deraadt 1248: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1249:
1.113 naddy 1250: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1251: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1252: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1253: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1254: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1255:
1256: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1257: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1258: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1259: <p>
1.83 louis 1260:
1.113 naddy 1261: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1262: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1263: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1264: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1265:
1266: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1267: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 1268: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1269: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1270: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1271: <p>
1.93 louis 1272:
1.113 naddy 1273: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1274: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 1275: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1276: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1277:
1.83 louis 1278: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1279: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1280: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1281: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1282: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1283: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1284: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1285: <p>
1.82 aaron 1286:
1.113 naddy 1287: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1288: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1289: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1290: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1291:
1.83 louis 1292: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1293: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1294: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1295: <p>
1.80 louis 1296:
1.113 naddy 1297: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1298: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1299: Bad Press</a>,
1300: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1301: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1302:
1303: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1304: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1305: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1306: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1307: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1308: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1309:
1310: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1311:
1.113 naddy 1312: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1313: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1314: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1315: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1316: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1317:
1318: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1319: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1320: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1321: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1322: <p>
1.74 louis 1323:
1.113 naddy 1324: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1325: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1326: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1327: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1328:
1329: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
1330: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
1331: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1332: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
1333: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
1334: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1335: <p>
1.88 louis 1336:
1.113 naddy 1337: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1338: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1339: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1340: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1341:
1342: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1343: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1344: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1345: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1346: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1347: <p>
1.81 louis 1348:
1.113 naddy 1349: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1350: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1351: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1352: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1353:
1354: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1355: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1356: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1357: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1358: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1359: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1360: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1361: <p>
1.90 louis 1362:
1.113 naddy 1363: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1364: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1365: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1366: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1367:
1368: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1369: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1370: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1371: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1372: <p>
1.71 louis 1373:
1.69 deraadt 1374: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1375:
1.113 naddy 1376: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1377: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1378: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1379: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1380:
1381: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1382: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1383: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1384: <p>
1.70 louis 1385:
1.113 naddy 1386: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1387: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1388: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1389: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1390:
1391: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1392: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1393: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipf&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&format=html">ipf</a>. His examples are based on OpenBSD 2.6
1.68 louis 1394: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1395: <p>
1.68 louis 1396:
1.113 naddy 1397: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1398: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1399: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1400: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1401: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1402:
1.111 jufi 1403: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1404: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1405: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1406: "secure by default" installation.
1407: <p>
1.64 louis 1408:
1.113 naddy 1409: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1410: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1411: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1412: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1413:
1.113 naddy 1414: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1415: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1416: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1417: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1418: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1419: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1420: <p>
1.66 louis 1421:
1.113 naddy 1422: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1423: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1424: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1425: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1426:
1427: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1428: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1429: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1430: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1431: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1432: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1433: <p>
1.83 louis 1434:
1.113 naddy 1435: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1436: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1437: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1438: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1439:
1440: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1441: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1442: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1443: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1444: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1445: <p>
1.64 louis 1446:
1.113 naddy 1447: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1448: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1449: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1450: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1451:
1452: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1453: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1454: <p>
1.65 louis 1455:
1.69 deraadt 1456: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1457:
1.113 naddy 1458: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1459: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1460: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1461: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1462:
1463: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1464: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1465: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1466: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1467: <p>
1.88 louis 1468:
1.113 naddy 1469: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1470: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/news/0,6423,2426206,00.html">Opening up, government style</a>, ZDNet, January 24, 2000
1.113 naddy 1471: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1472:
1473: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1474: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1475: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1476: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1477: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1478: <p>
1.60 louis 1479:
1.113 naddy 1480: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1481: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1482: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1483: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1484: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1485:
1486: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1487: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1488: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1489: <p>
1.58 louis 1490:
1.113 naddy 1491: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1492: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1493: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1494:
1495: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1496: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1497: <p>
1.53 louis 1498:
1.113 naddy 1499: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1500: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1501: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1502: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1503:
1504: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1505: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1506: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1507: <p>
1.99 louis 1508:
1.113 naddy 1509: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1510: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1511: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1512:
1513: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1514: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1515: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1516: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1517: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1518:
1.113 naddy 1519: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1520: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1521: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1522: </strong></font><br>
1523:
1524: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1525: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1526: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1527: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1528: <p>
1529:
1530: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1531: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1532: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1533: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1534:
1535: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1536: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1537: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1538:
1.113 naddy 1539: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1540: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1541: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1542:
1543: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1544: in
1.113 naddy 1545: <a href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/cc/section/pub/1,1100,33,00.html?pub=1&iss=52">The Computer Paper</a>.
1.53 louis 1546: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1547: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1548: <p>
1.53 louis 1549:
1.113 naddy 1550: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1551: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1552: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1553: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1554: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1555:
1.58 louis 1556: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1557: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1558:
1.69 deraadt 1559: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1560:
1.113 naddy 1561: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1562: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1563: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1564: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1565: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1566:
1.58 louis 1567: Kurt Seifried
1568: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1569: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1570: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1571: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1572:
1.113 naddy 1573: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1574: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1575: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1576: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1577:
1578: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1579: <p>
1.96 louis 1580:
1.113 naddy 1581: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1582: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1583: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1584: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1585:
1586: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1587: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1588: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1589: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1590: <p>
1.86 louis 1591:
1.69 deraadt 1592: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1593:
1.113 naddy 1594: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1595: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1596: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1597: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1598:
1599: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1600: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1601: <p>
1.61 louis 1602:
1.113 naddy 1603: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1604: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1605: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1606: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1607: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1608:
1609: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1610: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1611: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1612: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1613: right -- or at least strives to".
1614: <p>
1.48 louis 1615:
1.113 naddy 1616: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1617: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1618: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1619: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1620: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1621: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1622: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1623: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1624: <p>
1.61 louis 1625:
1.113 naddy 1626: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://slashdot.org/interviews/99/11/04/1716225.shtml">UK Royal Family webmaster prefers OpenBSD</a>,
1.48 louis 1627: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1628: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1629:
1630: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1631: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1632: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1633: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1634: <p>
1.46 louis 1635:
1.113 naddy 1636: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1637: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1638: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1639: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1640:
1641: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1642: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1643: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1644:
1.113 naddy 1645: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1646: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1647: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1648: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1649:
1650: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1651: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1652: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1653: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1654: <p>
1.70 louis 1655:
1.69 deraadt 1656: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1657:
1.211 horacio 1658: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1659: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1660: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1661: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1662: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1663:
1664: Kurt Seifried
1665: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1666: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1667: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1668: <p>
1.44 philen 1669:
1.113 naddy 1670: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/10/22/1157259&mode=thread">Interview with The Cult of the Dead Cow</a>,
1.41 louis 1671: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1672: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1673:
1674: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1675: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1676:
1.113 naddy 1677: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.lwn.net/1999/1014/security.phtml">The existence of OpenSSH-1.0 has been confirmed</a>,
1.37 louis 1678: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1679: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1680:
1681: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1682: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1683:
1.113 naddy 1684: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www10.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/10/biztech/articles/11code.html">Easing on Software Exports Has Limits</a>,
1.36 louis 1685: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1686: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1687:
1688: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1689: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1690: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1691: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1692: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1693:
1.113 naddy 1694: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.netsec.net/press_100699.html">NSTI announces commercial support services for OpenBSD</a>,
1.34 beck 1695: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1696: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1697:
1.36 louis 1698: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1699: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1700:
1.113 naddy 1701: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1702: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1703: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1704: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1705:
1706: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1707: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1708:
1.69 deraadt 1709: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1710:
1.113 naddy 1711: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href=http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/technology/stories/990930/2929913.html>Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security</a>,
1.38 louis 1712: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1713: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1714:
1715: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1716: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1717: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1718:
1.113 naddy 1719: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1720: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1721: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1722: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1723:
1724: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1725: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1726: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1727: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1728: <blockquote>
1729: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1730: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1731: <br>
1732: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1733: </code>
1734: </blockquote>
1735: <p>
1736:
1737: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1738: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/features/990927hack.htm">Hack this! Microsoft and its critics dispute software-security issues, but users make the final call</a>, Infoworld, Sept. 27, 1999<br>
1739: <li><a href="http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/28/ms.security.idg/index.html">Microsoft: Bad security, or bad press?</a>, CNN, Sept. 28, 1999
1740: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1741:
1742: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1743: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1744: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1745: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1746:
1.113 naddy 1747: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1748: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999
1.113 naddy 1749: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1750:
1751: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1752: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1753: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1754: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1755: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1756: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1757: <p>
1.19 louis 1758:
1.113 naddy 1759: <li><strong>
1760: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1761: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1762:
1763: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1764: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1765: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1766: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1767: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1768: <p>
1.16 louis 1769:
1.113 naddy 1770: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1771: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1772: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1773: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1774:
1.57 louis 1775: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1776: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1777: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1778: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1779:
1.113 naddy 1780: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1781: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1782: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1783: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1784:
1.113 naddy 1785: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1786:
1.113 naddy 1787: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 ! horacio 1788: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
! 1789: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1790: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1791:
1.23 louis 1792: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1793: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1794: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1795: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1796: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1797: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1798:
1.113 naddy 1799: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1800: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1801: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1802: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1803:
1.199 pvalchev 1804: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 1805: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1806: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1807: installation.
1.113 naddy 1808: <p>
1.47 louis 1809:
1.113 naddy 1810: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1811: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1812: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1813: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1814:
1815: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1816: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1817:
1.69 deraadt 1818: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1819:
1.113 naddy 1820: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1821: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1822: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1823: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1824:
1825: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1826: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1827: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1828: <p>
1.12 louis 1829:
1.113 naddy 1830: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1831: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1832: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1833: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1834:
1835: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1836: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1837: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1838: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1839: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1840: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1841: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1842: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1843:
1.69 deraadt 1844: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1845:
1.113 naddy 1846: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1847: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1848: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1849:
1850: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1851: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1852: available."
1.113 naddy 1853: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1854:
1.69 deraadt 1855: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1856:
1.113 naddy 1857: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1858: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1859: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1860:
1861: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1862: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1863: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1864: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1865: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1866: <p>
1.33 louis 1867:
1.113 naddy 1868: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1869: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1870: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1871: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1872:
1.113 naddy 1873: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1874: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1875: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1876: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1877: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1878: <p>
1.57 louis 1879:
1.69 deraadt 1880: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1881:
1.113 naddy 1882: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1883: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1884: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1885: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1886:
1887: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1888: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1889: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1890:
1.113 naddy 1891: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1892: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1893: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1894: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1895: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1896:
1897: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1898: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1899:
1.113 naddy 1900: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1901: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1902:
1.113 naddy 1903: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1904:
1.113 naddy 1905: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1906: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1907: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1908: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1909:
1910: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1911: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1912:
1.69 deraadt 1913: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1914:
1.113 naddy 1915: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1916: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1917: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1918:
1919: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1920: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1921: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1922:
1.113 naddy 1923: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1924: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1925: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1926: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1927:
1928: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1929: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 1930: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1931: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1932:
1.69 deraadt 1933: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1934:
1.113 naddy 1935: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1936: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1937: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1938: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1939:
1940: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1941: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1942: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1943: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1944: <p>
1.15 louis 1945:
1.113 naddy 1946: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1947: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1948: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1949: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1950:
1951: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1952: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1953: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1954: columns."
1.113 naddy 1955: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1956:
1.69 deraadt 1957: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1958:
1.113 naddy 1959: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1960: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1961: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1962: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1963:
1964: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1965: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1966:
1.113 naddy 1967: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1968: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1969: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1970:
1971: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1972: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1973: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 1974:
1.69 deraadt 1975: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
1976:
1.113 naddy 1977: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1978: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 1979: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 1980: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1981:
1982: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
1983: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
1984: Implementation, including a brief interview with
1985: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 1986: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1987:
1.69 deraadt 1988: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
1989:
1.113 naddy 1990: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 1991: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 1992: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1993:
1.69 deraadt 1994: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
1995: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 1996: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1997:
1.69 deraadt 1998: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 1999:
1.113 naddy 2000: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2001: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2002: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2003: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2004:
2005: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2006: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2007: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2008:
1.113 naddy 2009: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
2010: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2011: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2012: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2013: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2014:
1.69 deraadt 2015: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
2016:
1.113 naddy 2017: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2018: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2019: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2020: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2021: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2022: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2023:
2024: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2025: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2026: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2027: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2028: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2029: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2030:
2031: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
2032:
1.113 naddy 2033: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2034: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2035: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2036:
1.69 deraadt 2037: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2038: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2039: <p>
1.112 naddy 2040:
1.113 naddy 2041: </dl>
2042: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2043:
1.113 naddy 2044: <hr>
2045: <a name=se></a>
2046: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2047:
1.200 niklas 2048: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2049:
2050: <dl>
2051: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2052: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2053: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2054:
2055: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2056: <p>
2057:
2058: </dl>
2059:
2060: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2061:
2062: <dl>
2063: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2064: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2065: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2066:
2067: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2068: <p>
2069:
2070: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2071: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2072: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2073:
2074: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2075: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2076: <p>
2077:
2078: </dl>
2079:
2080: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2081:
2082: <dl>
2083: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2084: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2085: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2086:
2087: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2088: <p>
2089:
2090: </dl>
2091:
1.102 niklas 2092: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2093:
1.113 naddy 2094: <dl>
2095: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2096: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2097: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2098:
2099: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2100: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2101: <p>
1.102 niklas 2102:
1.113 naddy 2103: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2104:
1.84 niklas 2105: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2106:
1.113 naddy 2107: <dl>
2108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2109: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2110: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2111:
2112: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2113: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2114: <p>
1.84 niklas 2115:
1.113 naddy 2116: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2117:
1.69 deraadt 2118: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2119:
1.113 naddy 2120: <dl>
2121: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2122: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2123: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2124:
2125: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
2126: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2127: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2128: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2129:
1.113 naddy 2130: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2131: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2132: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2133: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2134: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2135:
1.20 louis 2136: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2137: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2138: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2139: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2140: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2141:
1.113 naddy 2142: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2143:
1.113 naddy 2144: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2145: <a name=fi></a>
2146: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2147:
2148: <dl>
2149:
2150: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2151:
2152: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2153: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2154: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2155:
2156: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2157: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2158: </dl>
2159:
2160: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2161: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2162:
1.113 naddy 2163: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2164:
1.113 naddy 2165: <dl>
1.20 louis 2166:
1.170 louis 2167: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2168:
2169: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2170: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2171: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2172: </strong></font><br>
2173:
2174: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2175: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2176: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2177: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2178: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2179: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2180: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
2181: <p>
2182:
1.69 deraadt 2183: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2184:
1.113 naddy 2185: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2186: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2187: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2188: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2189:
2190: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2191: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2192: translating and reprinting articles from
2193: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2194: <p>
1.112 naddy 2195:
1.113 naddy 2196: </dl>
1.20 louis 2197:
1.113 naddy 2198: <hr>
2199: <a name=de></a>
2200: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2201: <dl>
1.50 louis 2202:
1.151 louis 2203: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2204:
2205: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2206: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2207: </strong></font><br>
2208:
2209: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2210: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2211: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2212: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2213: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2214:
2215: <p>
2216:
1.72 louis 2217: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2218:
1.113 naddy 2219: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2220: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2221: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2222: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2223:
1.101 jufi 2224: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2225: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2226: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2227: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2228: Giving way to
2229: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2230: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2231: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2232: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2233: <p>
1.72 louis 2234:
1.69 deraadt 2235: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2236:
1.113 naddy 2237: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2238: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2239: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2240: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2241:
2242: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2243: <p>
2244: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2245:
1.50 louis 2246:
1.113 naddy 2247: <hr>
2248: <a name=ru></a>
2249: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2250: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2251:
1.69 deraadt 2252: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2253:
1.113 naddy 2254: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2255: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2256: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2257: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2258:
2259: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2260: <p>
1.62 form 2261:
1.69 deraadt 2262: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2263:
1.113 naddy 2264: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2265: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2266: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2267: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2268:
1.59 form 2269: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2270: <p>
1.112 naddy 2271:
1.113 naddy 2272: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2273:
1.113 naddy 2274: <hr>
2275: <a name=pl></a>
2276: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2277: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2278:
1.113 naddy 2279: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2280: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2281: Radio, August 2, 2000
2282: </strong></font><br>
2283:
2284: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2285: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2286: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2287: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2288: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2289: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2290: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2291: <p>
2292:
2293: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2294: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2295: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2296: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2297: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2298:
2299: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2300: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2301: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2302: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2303: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2304: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2305: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2306: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2307: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2308: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2309: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2310: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2311: <p>
2312: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2313:
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