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1.113 naddy 15: <h2><font color=#e00000>Media Coverage</font></h2>
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31: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
32: <dl>
1.16 louis 33:
1.218 ! horacio 34: <h2>November, 2001</h2>
! 35:
! 36: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 37: <a href="http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2822483,00.html">
! 38: OpenBSD: The most secure OS around</a>, ZDNet, November 5, 2001
! 39: </strong></font><br>
! 40:
! 41: IT columnist and former NASA and DoD network administrator and
! 42: programmer Steven Vaughan-Nichols, praises the OpenBSD
! 43: security audits and the team's search for potential problems
! 44: and its resolution to fix them <strong>before</strong> they
! 45: can develop into security holes: <em>"Unlike
! 46: most operating system vendors, the OpenBSD crew is proactive
! 47: rather than reactive to security problems."</em><br>
! 48: Then goes on naming OpenBSD's <em>secure by default</em>
! 49: policy, Kerberos authentication protocol implementation, and
! 50: TCP/IP stack built-in IPSec protocol, as ready to use VPN
! 51: solutions whereas they are options to be installed and applied
! 52: on other operating systems.<br>
! 53: Furthermore, he writes he agrees with Theo de Raadt while
! 54: quoting him saying <em>"security is usually increased by
! 55: removing stuff, not by adding more junk"</em> in that
! 56: it's easier to keep something simple secure.
! 57: <p>
! 58:
1.210 jufi 59: <h2>October, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 60:
1.210 jufi 61: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
62: <a href="http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20011002/tc/how_code_red_revealed_the_perils_of_port_80_1.html">
63: How Code Red revealed the perils of port 80</a>, ZDNet, October 2, 2001
64: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 65:
66: In an article about the effects and consequences of the Code
67: Red worm which attacked Webservers running the IIS from
68: Microsoft, the merits of reliability instead of new features
1.210 jufi 69: are discussed. As a positive example they use OpenBSD.
1.215 horacio 70: <p>
71:
72: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
73:
74: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
75: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1232/urm0108m/">
76: Thinking about Security</a>, Unix Review, August 2001
77: </strong></font><br>
78:
79: Following the Code Red worm hit of ISS, Joe "Zonker"
80: Brockmeier takes a tour through systems administration
81: security and says that even secured operating systems running
82: Apache like OpenBSD and others have security issues from time
83: to time.<br>
84: Oh well, we'll have to live with not having a total secure
85: system and just the most secure system.
86: <p>
87:
88: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
89: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1147/sam0108m/">
90: Homebrew Intrusion Detection Systems</a>, SysAdmin, August 2001
91: </strong></font><br>
92:
93: Chris Kuethe goes one step ahead of installing network
94: intrusion detection systems and writes on how to make the
95: right environment for these tools and how to put them to work
96: instead, for which he takes OpenBSD as the platform of his
97: choice:<br>
98: <em>"To the best of my knowledge (reproducible evidence
99: to the contrary is welcome) OpenBSD has the fastest IP stack
100: available (although all BSD-derived operating systems have
101: good network code) and an enviable security record. The
102: network monitor is unique in that it is often outside of any
103: network security devices and as such must be well
104: armored."</em><br>
105: For the references, he points out that <em>"OpenBSD has
106: thorough documentation; almost everything you'll ever need to
107: know about making your analysis station be well behaved and
108: stable can be found in the man pages or the FAQ."</em>
109: <br>
110: Bravo!
111: <p>
1.210 jufi 112:
1.207 ian 113: <h2>July, 2001</h2>
1.215 horacio 114:
1.207 ian 115: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
116: An article on <a href="http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0701/openSSH.html">
117: Sun's Solaris Blueprints Online series</a>
118: </strong></font>
1.215 horacio 119:
1.207 ian 120: talks about OpenSSH as a good replacement for telnet, rlogin, and friends.
121: The article goes on to say:
1.209 ian 122: <br>"OpenSSH is managed by the OpenBSD team. OpenBSD is an open
1.207 ian 123: source operating system based on BSD 4.4-Lite and is available for
124: free. A major goal of the OpenBSD project is to create a secure
125: operating system by auditing source code, fixing security problems
1.209 ian 126: quickly, and integrating security tools and cryptographic software..."
1.215 horacio 127: <p>
1.207 ian 128:
1.194 jufi 129: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
130:
131: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 132: <a href="http://www.internetweek.com/reviews01/rev061801.htm">
133: The OS X Files: Apple's updated operating system looks to the Internet</a>, InternetWeek, June 18, 2001
134: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 135:
1.213 horacio 136: On a review of the Mac OS X, Larry Loeb adresses the question
137: on how the change from Mac OS to Mac OS X will affect security
138: by saying:<br> <em>"[...] the Unix layer is based on OpenBSD,
139: one of the most secure Unix distributions out there."</em>
140: <p>
141:
142: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.212 horacio 143: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2772049,00.html">
1.201 horacio 144: Strife and success in the land of open source</a>,
145: ZDNet News, June 11, 2001
146: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 147:
1.201 horacio 148: Stephan Somogyi reviews the latest issue with the IPF licence and
1.206 ian 149: examines why the OpenBSD team made the decision of removing it from
1.201 horacio 150: its source tree altogether. But <em>"code talks, and OpenBSD has
151: spoken quite eloquently in the past"</em>, writes Somogyi. Later
152: on the article he comments on the team's <em>licence audit</em> through
1.206 ian 153: the OpenBSD source code and Wietse Venema's decision to change his
1.201 horacio 154: tcp_wrappers' licence after a talk with Theo de Raadt.
155: <br>
156: To make up for the stormy issue that IPF's licence has meant for the
157: Open Source community, in the last lines of this article Somogyi writes
158: a small review of our latest release, OpenBSD 2.9, which he calls an
159: <em>"unheralded open source success story"</em>.
160: <p>
161:
162: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.194 jufi 163: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features496.html">
164: Interview with Wietse Venema about his tcp_wrappers license</a>,
1.206 ian 165: BSD Today, June 1, 2001
1.194 jufi 166: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 167:
1.194 jufi 168: Doing more research about licenses in the BSD tree, Jeremy C. Reed found that the license of
169: the tcp_wrappers wasn't compliant with the BSD goals. The following interview with Wietse Venema
170: caught the eye of Theo de Raadt, who had a lengthy and fun discussion about the license with Wietse.
171: <br>
172: The new
173: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/tcp_wrappers_license">license</a>
1.197 deraadt 174: of tcp_wrappers is now free, as is the
175: <a href="ftp://ftp.porcupine.org/pub/security/logdaemon_license">license</a> on
176: logdaemon!<br>
1.194 jufi 177:
1.190 horacio 178: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
179:
180: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 181:
182: <a href="http://false.net/ipfilter/2001_05/0332.html">Re: IPFilter 3.4 update. </a>,
183: Darren Reed, IPFilter mailing list archive, May 19, 2001<br>
184:
185: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0524/#ipfilter">BSD is not free software?</a>,
186: LWN weekly news, May 24, 2001<br>
187:
188: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/May/News489.html">IP Filter License change?</a>,
189: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, May 24, 2001<br>
190:
1.212 horacio 191: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010527142347">
192: Changes in IPFilter license to affect OpenBSD?</a>,
1.191 jufi 193: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 27, 2001<br>
194:
1.211 horacio 195: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/articles/ipf20010528.html"> -->
196: IPF: Free no more?,
1.191 jufi 197: Kurt Seifried, Security Portal, May 28, 2001 <br>
198:
199: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/1225224&mode=thread">IPF License Change: Redistribution Not Allowed</a>,
200: Timothy, Slashdot, May 28, 2001<br>
201:
202: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/05/28/0610252&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
203: Hemos, Slashdot, May 28, 2001 <br>
204:
1.212 horacio 205: <a href="http://www.deadly.org/article.php3?sid=20010530141105">
206: IPF removed from OpenBSD</a>,
1.191 jufi 207: Dengue, OpenBSD Journal, May 30, 2001<br>
208:
209: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-05-30-001-20-NW-BD">IPFilter Comes Out of OpenBSD CVS</a>,
210: Theo de Raadt, Linux Today, May 30, 2001<br>
211:
212: <a href="http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6119988.html">Open-source spat spurs software change</a>,
213: Stephen Shankland, CNET.com - Tech News, May 30, 2001<br>
214:
215: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0531/a/ipfilter-gone.php3">ipf (more)</a>,
216: Theo de Raadt, LWN weekly news, May 31, 2001<br>
217:
218: <a href="http://lwn.net/2001/0601/">IP Filter licensing followup.</a>,
1.206 ian 219: LWN weekly news, June 1, 2001<br>
1.191 jufi 220:
1.192 jufi 221: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/June/Features495.html">
222: BSD project goals, IP Filter licensing, and Darren Reed interview</a>,
1.206 ian 223: Jeremy C. Reed, BSD Today, June 1, 2001<br>
1.192 jufi 224:
1.193 deraadt 225: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO61038,00.html">
226: OpenBSD drops firewall program in licensing dispute</a>,
1.206 ian 227: Todd R. Weiss, ComputerWorld, June 1, 2001<br>
1.193 deraadt 228:
1.196 deraadt 229: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/03/1911246&mode=thread">Changes in IPFilter License</a>,
230: Hemos, Slashdot, June 3, 2001<br>
231:
1.198 pvalchev 232: <a href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/06/06/169245&mode=thread">
233: OpenBSD and ipfilter still fighting over license agreement</a>,
234: NewsForge, June 6, 2001<br>
235:
1.213 horacio 236: <a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/06/25/1557213">
237: 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>,
238: Slashdot, June 25, 2001<br>
239:
1.190 horacio 240: </strong></font><br>
1.191 jufi 241: Many articles and discussions follow after Darren Reed clarified the license of his
242: <a href="http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~avalon/ip-filter.html">IP Filter</a> software.<br>
243: Because IPF is not <a href="http://www.opensource.org">Open Source</a> and does not qualify for
244: <a href="goals.html">OpenBSD licence rules</a>, IPF was removed from future release,
245: and will be replaced with a free alternative.
246: <p>
1.190 horacio 247:
1.191 jufi 248: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.212 horacio 249: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010516.html"> -->
250: Why Linux Will Never Be as Secure as OpenBSD,
1.195 jufi 251: SecurityPortal, May 16, 2001
252: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 253:
1.195 jufi 254: As a followup to his article one week before, titled
1.212 horacio 255: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20010509.html"> -->"Why OpenBSD will never be as secure as Linux"
1.195 jufi 256: , Kurt Seifried comes to the conclusion that clean and good programming is more important than dozens of features and
257: add-ons, therefore OpenBSD users are in a better position.
258: <p>
259:
260: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.191 jufi 261: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5082320,00.html">
262: Flaw found in common Internet standard</a>,
263: ZDNet News, May 3, 2001
264: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 265:
1.191 jufi 266: Robert Lemos talks about the <a href="http://www.cert.org">CERT</a>
267: <a href="http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2001-09.html">warning</a> concerning the Initial Sequence Numbers
268: (ISN), which could be used to hijack TCP connections of several OS's, but not so
269: with OpenBSD.
1.190 horacio 270: <p>
271:
1.191 jufi 272:
1.186 jufi 273: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
1.187 deraadt 274:
1.186 jufi 275: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
276: <a href="http://razor.bindview.com/publish/papers/tcpseq.html">
1.187 deraadt 277: Strange Attractors and TCP/IP Sequence Number Analysis</a>,
278: Razor Bindview, April 21, 2001
1.186 jufi 279: </strong></font><br>
1.187 deraadt 280:
1.188 jufi 281: Michal Zalewski reports and provides an overview over the degree of
1.199 pvalchev 282: probability that someone can successfully insert a malicious packet
1.186 jufi 283: into your TCP connection.<br>
1.187 deraadt 284: In a series of pretty graphs, several OS are covered, including
285: Windows 9x, ME and 2000, Solaris, Linux and the BSD family.<br>
1.189 horacio 286: Good scoring for OpenBSD, we're nearly safe up to 2.8, and
1.187 deraadt 287: completely safe from 2.9 on.
1.186 jufi 288: <p>
289:
1.191 jufi 290:
291: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 292: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20010405.html?&_ref=36874758"> -->
293: Abandon hope all ye who enter here,
1.191 jufi 294: Security Portal, April 05, 2001
295: </strong></font><br>
296:
297: Kurt Seifried interviews Elias Levy, a.k.a. Aleph1 from BugTraq, who
298: states that <em>"efforts like the one from the OpenBSD project
299: <strong>are a must</strong>"</em> and then goes further to say
300: that <em>"systems that have gone through a source code security
301: audit should include a mandatory tag that says <strong>Lasciate ogne
302: speranza, voi ch'intrate</strong>"</em>.<br>
303: Through the interview he also gives a very interesting note on other
304: complex security models implemented to existing systems, and how
305: incorrect implementation or configuration of such models results in
306: vulnerabilities. Security through simplicity... doesn't this sound
307: familiar?
308: <p>
309:
1.178 louis 310: <h2>March, 2001</h2>
311:
312: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.187 deraadt 313: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/03/02/ipv6_ItoJun.html">
314: IPv6: An Interview with Itojun</a>, O'Reilly Network, March 2, 2001
1.178 louis 315: </strong></font><br>
316:
317: Hubert Feyrer interviews Jun-ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the
318: core KAME developers, who integrated the KAME IPv6 stack into OpenBSD and
319: NetBSD. He's a bit disappointed by the slow deployment of IPv6 -- the router
320: makers say there is no demand, and the ISPs are waiting for hardware. He
321: talks also about the other cool projects by KAME and WIDE projects, and says
322: you've got to visit Japan -- it's the place to be if you're a BSD geek!
323: <p>
324:
1.179 louis 325: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
326: <a
1.182 louis 327: href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/march01/features1_open_source_sec.shtml">Open source under the hood</a>, Information Security, March 2001.
328: </strong></font><br>
329:
330: More and more commercial software vendors are turning to open source software,
331: including OpenBSD, to provide the building blocks for their products. Columnist
332: Pete Loshin discusses the security implications.
333: <p>
334:
335: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
336: <a
1.179 louis 337: href="http://www.net-security.org/text/articles/mostsecure.shtml">Your
338: Opinion: "Most Secure OS"</a>, Help Net Security, March 2001
339: </strong></font><br>
340:
341: Out of 340 reader opinions, the editors picked five, two of which opined
342: that OpenBSD had the clear lead to the title of "Most Secure OS".
343: <p>
344:
1.174 louis 345:
1.175 louis 346: <h2>February, 2001</h2>
347:
348: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
349: <a
1.179 louis 350: href="http://www.thedukeofurl.org/reviews/misc/openbsd28/">Review:
351: OpenBSD 2.8</a>, The Duke of URL, February 9, 2001
352: </strong></font><br>
353:
354: A very thorough review of OpenBSD 2.8 by Patrick Mullen, trying it on both
355: Intel and AMD hardware, showing screen shots of the installation process.
356: Oh, by the way, he refutes that earlier review that complained OpenBSD
357: wouldn't run on VMware. Here's a toast to reviewers who do their homework.
358: <p>
359:
360: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
361: <a
1.183 ian 362: href="http://geodsoft.com/howto/harden/">Hardening OpenBSD Internet
1.175 louis 363: Servers</a>, GeodSoft, February 7, 2001
364: </strong></font><br>
365:
366: Not really a press article, but this how-to has good pointers on locking down
1.177 aaron 367: an OpenBSD server, including how to create a recovery CD to minimize site
1.175 louis 368: downtime (hey, hardware breaks). The tips apply also to other operating systems.
369: <p>
370:
1.176 louis 371:
1.172 mickey 372: <h2>January, 2001</h2>
373:
374: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.180 louis 375: <u>Global geeks bet on open source</u>, The Globe and Mail, January 29, 2001
1.176 louis 376: </strong></font><br>
377:
378: Columnist Jim Carroll uses the latest round of attacks on Microsoft sites
379: to drum up a bit more business for open source software, including OpenBSD,
380: <em>"which is known for its absolutely bedrock security"</em>.
1.180 louis 381: <br>(Print only).
1.176 louis 382: <p>
383:
384: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
385: <a
1.174 louis 386: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/29/1718219">Theo
387: de Raadt gives it all to OpenBSD</a>, NewsForge, January 29, 2001
388: </strong></font><br>
389:
390: This time, Open Source people profiler Julie Bresnick interviews Theo de Raadt,
391: lead developer of OpenBSD, about how he started, the OpenBSD
392: "family", hacking, conferences, friends, beer and mountain bikes.
393: <p>
394:
395: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
396: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/News394.html">Tucows
397: BSD Channel is no more</a>, BSD Today, January 24, 2001
398: </strong></font><br>
399:
400: Editor Jeremy Reed fails to shed a tear for the poorly edited (and often
401: openly hostile) bsd.tucows.com site.
402: <p>
403:
404: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
405: <a
406: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/01/16/0333216">With
407: Snoopy's Eriksen, the more things change, the more they stay the same</a>,
408: NewsForge, January 16, 2001
409: </strong></font><br>
410:
411: In another quirky Open Source people profile, NewsForge columnist Julie
412: Bresnick interviews Aamodt Eriksen, author of the Snoopy command logger, who
413: runs OpenBSD on his ThinkPad and acknowledges as a role model, among others,
414: our own Theo de Raadt.
415: <p>
416:
417: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
418: <a
419: href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2001/January/Features379.html">A lot
420: of misinformation about BSD</a>, BSD Today, January 6, 2001
421: </strong></font><br>
422:
423: Editor Jeremy Reed takes the bsd.Tucows.com BSD reviewers to task for some
424: inaccurate and ill-informed reviews, like the one that said that OpenBSD was
425: licensed under the GPL (hint, it's anything but -- see our
426: <a href="policy.html">policy page</a>. [Note Jan.24: bsd.tucows.com has been
427: shut down.]
428: <p>
429:
430: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
431: <a
1.206 ian 432: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2001/0165/0165a/0165a.htm">Theo de Raadt,
1.172 mickey 433: Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, Werner Losh, and Jack Woehr
1.173 mickey 434: at "A Roundtable on BSD, Security, and Quality"</a>, Dr. Dobb's, January, 2001
1.172 mickey 435: </strong></font><br>
436:
437: Contributing Editor Jack Woehr moderated a roundtable with four
438: key members of the BSD movement at the recent USENIX Security Symposium 2000.
439: <p>
440:
1.161 louis 441: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
442:
1.175 louis 443: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
444: <a
445: href="http://eltoday.com/article.php3?ltsn=2000-12-26-001-13-PS">Florist.com
446: Blossoms with Open Source E-Commerce Software from Akopia</a>, Enterprise
447: Linux Today, December 26, 2000
448: </strong></font><br>
449:
450: On-line flowers for Hollywood glitterati? OpenBSD in the supporting cast. Story
451: by John Wolley
452: <p>
453:
454: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
455: <a
456: href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/15614.html">OpenBSD exploit
457: gets serious</a>, The Register, December 20, 2000
458: </strong></font><br>
459:
460: OpenBSD developers upgrade the importance of an esoteric buffer overflow in the
461: FTP daemon after an exploit is published (ftpd is not enabled by default in
462: OpenBSD).
463: <p>
464:
1.161 louis 465: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
466: <a
1.171 louis 467: href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/12/11/1455210&mode=thread">Theo de
468: Raadt Responds</a>, Slashdot, December 11, 2000
469: </strong></font><br>
470:
471: Lead developer Theo de Raadt answers reader questions moderated by Slashdot
472: editor Roblimo. The mass interview covers a seriously wide range of topics:
473: sharing the code auditing experience, securing the <a href="ports.html">ports
474: tree</a>, books of various colours, secure coding practices, hardware, patches
475: and hindsight.
476: <p>
477:
478: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 479: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=27059">
480: OpenBSD Updated</a>, Computer Dealer News, December 8, 2000
481: </strong></font><br>
482:
483: A small article on 2.8 release and CD sales.
484: <p>
485:
486: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.171 louis 487: <a
1.168 provos 488: href="http://www.maccentral.com/news/0012/07.openbsd.shtml">OpenBSD 2.8 runs on G3/G4 machine</a>, MacCentral Online,
489: December 7, 2000
490: </strong></font><br>
491:
492: OpenBSD 2.8 has been released -- it's free -- and will now run on
493: iMac, G3, G4, and G4 Cube machines. And if that is Greek to you, let
494: us explain.
495: <p>
496:
497: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 498: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001206.html"> -->
499: System and Network Security - Kernel Options,
500: Kurt's Closet, Security Portal,
1.166 louis 501: December 6, 2000
502: </strong></font><br>
503:
504: Going beyond the usual security measures means looking at some often
505: neglected kernel options and settings. Kurt Seifried looks at kernel
506: options under OpenBSD, Linux and Solaris.
507: <p>
508:
509: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
510: <a
1.162 millert 511: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2660398,00.html">Why
512: I use OpenBSD</a>, ZDNet News, December 4, 2000
513: </strong></font><br>
514:
515: Stephan Somogyi explains why he runs OpenBSD, largely due to OpenBSD's
1.167 louis 516: emphasis on security. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
1.206 ian 517: open SPAM relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
1.167 louis 518: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
519: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
520: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
521: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
1.163 deraadt 522: <p>
1.162 millert 523:
524: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
525: <a
1.161 louis 526: href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/open_season?id=3a26ad1a2">BSD
527: community learns to get along</a>, Open Season, Upside Today, December 1, 2000
528: </strong></font><br>
529:
530: OpenBSD gets a passing mention in this cheerleader piece by Sam Williams about
531: the wide distribution potential of the BSD-derived Mac OS X.
532: <p>
533:
1.169 louis 534: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
535: <a
536: href="http://www.ddj.com/articles/2000/0065/0065o/0065o.htm">The Future of
537: OpenBSD: A Conversation with Theo de Raadt</a>, Dr. Dobbs Journal, December 2000
538: </strong></font><br>
539:
540: Contributing editor Jack J. Woehr's interview with Theo de Raadt at Usenix
541: Security Symposium 2000 gives a bit of insight about project dynamics, where
542: the OS is headed, and on how the security audit evolved from a hunt for
543: security holes to a philosophy of correct and bug-free programming.
544: <p>
545:
1.158 louis 546: <h2>November, 2000</h2>
1.147 louis 547:
548: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.157 louis 549: <a
1.175 louis 550: href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/main/0,10228,2659085,00.html">BSD
551: to leapfrog Linux</a>, ZDnet Linux Opinion, November 29, 2000
552: </strong></font><br>
553:
554: A somewhat speculative article by Henry Kingman based on recent the recent
555: flurry of releases, new products and conference activity from the BSD world.
556: <p>
557:
558: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
559: <a
1.164 deraadt 560: href="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2657124,00.html">Is Darwin getting
1.165 deraadt 561: due respect?</a>, ZD Net, November 23, 2000
1.161 louis 562: </strong></font><br>
563: Stephan Somogyi dismisses Apple's open source offering as "opportunistic",
564: Darwin, and sneaks in a tip of the hat to OpenBSD.
565: <p>
566:
567: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
568: <a
569: href="http://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2000/1120works.html">Beyond Windows
570: and Linux: Discovering the BSDs</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion, November 20, 2000
571: </strong></font><br>
572:
573: Worried that Linux will be de-stabilized by the hype machine? Paul Hoffman
574: suggests a serious look at the BSD-based operating systems.
575: <p>
576:
577: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 578: <a href="http://www.thelinuxgurus.org/linuxopenbsdfirewalls.shtml">Building
1.161 louis 579: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>, book review, The Linux Gurus, November 18, 2000
580: </strong></font><br>
1.174 louis 581:
1.213 horacio 582: In this detailed review of the Sonnenreich & Yates
1.161 louis 583: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/books.html">firewalls book</a>, the unnamed
584: author concludes that the authors aren't paranoid enough in stripping down
585: the firewall system to the bare essentials.
586: <p>
1.215 horacio 587:
1.174 louis 588: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
589: <a
590: href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/1113887">What the future holds for
591: Unix</a>, vnunet.com, November 10, 2000
592: </strong></font><br>
593:
594: Dave Cartwright dons the weird robes and gazes into the crystal ball for
595: the future of big-iron UNIX, Linux and BSD. Best quote in the article:<br>
596: <em>"Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD will continue to flourish due to their
597: openness, price, quality and attitude."</em>. Quality, that's us (and
598: much of the attitude too).
599: <p>
1.161 louis 600:
601: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 602: <!-- <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-11-2000/swol-1110-silicon.html"> -->
603: BSDCon 2000: A small, tasty conference, Sun World, November 2000
1.157 louis 604: </strong></font><br>
1.215 horacio 605:
1.157 louis 606: Silicon Carny columnist Rich Morin reviews BSD Con 2000. He gives an overview
607: of the five BSD variants available and a bit of atmosphere from the conference.
608: <p>
609:
610: <h2>October, 2000</h2>
611:
612: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 613: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20001025.html"> -->
614: Auditing Code, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, October 31, 2000
1.156 louis 615: </strong></font><br>
616:
617: Kurt Seifried interviews John Viega, author of the ITS4 code auditing
618: system. While he acknowledges the value of OpenBSD's strictly
619: expert-based auditing process, he argues that using even an imperfect
620: auditing tool is better than no audit at all.
621: <p>
622:
623: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
624: href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2644279,00.html">Linux
625: Boosts Unix</a>, ZDnet Inter@ctive Week, October 23, 2000
626: </strong></font><br>
627:
628: Charles Babcock suggests that Unix and freenix OSes like Linux and
629: OpenBSD are putting the squeeze on Microsoft Windows 2000's share of
630: the high end server market. Not bad for a bunch of hackers who just do
631: it because they love coding...
632: <p>
633:
634: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
635: <a href="http://www.stallion.com/html/support/bsdcon-paper.html">Porting
636: OpenBSD to the Motorola ColdFire</a>, BSDCon, October 18, 2000
637: </strong></font><br>
638:
639: Dean Fogarty and David O'Rourke, engineers at Stallion Technologies
640: Pty Ltd in Australia, presented this paper at BSDCon.<br>
641: <i>"Making an Internet embedded appliance for public
642: consumption is not a simple task. Choices including hardware, code
643: development and user interface design must be made, each of which could
644: either help or hinder a product. This paper outlines how and why
645: Stallion Technologies used the Motorola ColdFire CPU and the OpenBSD
646: operating system to create a successful Internet appliance."</i>
647: <p>
648:
649: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.153 louis 650: <a href="http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es405lofi.html">Cry
651: Hackerdom!</a>, FEED, October 17, 2000
652: </strong></font><br>
653:
654: Brendan Koerner continues his exploration of the digital world with a
655: visit to this year's Defcon. There's a cameo appearance by Theo de Raadt,
656: cast as a starving hacker. Before the article sets off a
657: verge-of-financial-collapse panic on the mailing lists, we'd like to make
658: a correction: Theo can occasionally afford a pint of Guinness to go with
659: the pizza.
660: <p>
661:
662: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.150 louis 663: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=1061">Sniping at
664: OpenBSD</a>, #RootPrompt.org, October 9, 2000
665: </strong></font><br>
666:
667: Columnist Noel discusses some of the angry comments made about
668: OpenBSD's Bugtraq disclosure of a localhost vulnerability . He gets
669: at the point of the source code audit: it's not to find exploitable
670: holes, but rather to fix bugs so that they never become security
671: problems.
672: <p>
673:
674: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 675: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue7.txt">Using IPSEC and Samba to integrate Windows Networks</a>, Napalm, October 6, 2000
676: </strong></font><br>
677:
678: OpenBSD, IPSec, IPF, Samba and Windows: azure covers it all in this
679: networking epic about connecting two Windows-based networks over a VPN
680: - whether they like it or not.
681: <p>
682:
683: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.148 aaron 684: <a href="http://www.upsidetoday.com/Open_Season/39dceffe0.html">OpenBSD
685: plugs a rare security leak</a>, Upside Today, October 6, 2000
686: </strong></font><br>
687:
688: Developer Aaron Campbell is interviewed by Upside reporter Sam Williams
689: about the recent concern over format string vulnerabilities and how
690: OpenBSD has responded to the threat.
1.149 aaron 691: <p>
1.148 aaron 692:
693: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 694: <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 695: </strong></font><br>
696:
697: Dissipating the smokescreen of FUD surrounding "full
698: disclosure" is a never ending thankless task. Rik Farrow shows how
699: it works by picking a particularly busy day in the life of BUGTRAQ, the
700: full disclosure security mailing list. He concludes with a tip of the
701: white hat to OpenBSD:<br>
702: <i>"The true goal should be to write secure software in the first
703: place. One Unix version, OpenBSD, gets all of its code audited for
704: security bugs before it gets shipped."</i>
705: <p>
706:
707: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 708: <a href="http://www.byte.com/documents/s=448/byt20000927s0001/index.htm">
709: BSD OSs Offer Unix Alternatives to Linux</a>, Byte, October 2, 2000
1.147 louis 710: </strong></font><br>
711:
712: In a long-ish article subtitled "<i>For security, scaling,
713: consider a BSD OS</i>", columnist Bill Nicholls does a survey of the
714: BSDs. Mostly he summarises the history and quotes the various project
715: web sites, but this is the kind of article that should benefit
716: non-technical readers bombarded with Linux advocacy.
717: <p>
718:
1.138 louis 719: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
720:
721: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.145 louis 722: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
1.146 louis 723: System Takes On Linux</a>,
724: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631373,00.html">Chris
725: Coleman Explains BSD Unix</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
1.145 louis 726: </strong></font><br>
727:
1.146 louis 728: Two BSD related articles in the same mainstream publication, on the same day.
729: A trend, maybe? The first article, a business-oriented manager's eye view,
730: credits OpenBSD's proactive security approach for spurring on security
731: development in the other BSD groups, and even Linux. The second is an
732: interview with Daemon News editor Chris Coleman which attempts to explain
733: the various BSDs. The writer clearly hasn't mastered the topic yet, or even
734: spelled Coleman's name consistently.
1.145 louis 735: <p>
736:
737: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.200 niklas 738: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2631312,00.html">BSD
739: System Takes On Linux</a>, Inter@ctive Week, September 25, 2000
740: </strong></font><br>
741:
742: A manager's eye view business-oriented story credits OpenBSD's proactive
743: security approach for spurring on security development in the other BSD
744: groups, and even Linux.
745: <p>
746:
747: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 748: <a href="http://upside.com/Open_Season/39b82a2e0.html">Primed and ready</a>,
749: Upside Today, September 7, 2000
750: </strong></font><br>
751:
752: An article by Sam Williams about the reaction to RSA Security's pre-emptive
753: release of RSA into the public domain. The impact on OpenBSD? Minimal --
754: most users are already taking advantage of the trick to download the ssl
755: library after installing the OS.
756: <p>
757:
758: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 759: OpenBSD as a VPN Solution <em>(not available online)</em>,
1.138 louis 760: Sys Admin, September 2000
761: </strong></font><br>
762:
763: Alex Withers contributed an article on setting up a VPN with OpenBSD's IPsec
764: and the ISAKMPD key management daemon. He admits his implementation, though
765: quite serviceable, only scratches the surface of the capabilities available.
766: He strongly suggests going through the man pages
767: (<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>,
768: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ipsec&apropos=0&sektion=0&ma
769: npath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html">ipsec(4)</a> and
770: <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 771: <a href="faq/faq13.html">IPsec FAQ</a> to get the most
1.138 louis 772: out of the system.
773: <p>
774:
1.144 louis 775: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
776: <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
777: </strong></font><br>
778:
779: Keith Rankin, a veteran system administrator, rates three operating systems
1.200 niklas 780: in terms of usablility and productivity. Despite a lengthy rant about minimalist
781: installations, <code>vi</code> and a default C shell, he finds nice things to
782: say about OpenBSD's floppy + 'Net installation, the thorough system probe and
783: the IP filtering and address translation.
784: <p>
785:
1.131 louis 786: <h2>August, 2000</h2>
787:
788: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 789: <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/29/OpenBSD.html">
790: OpenBSD and the Future of the Internet</a>,
791: OpenBSD Explained, O'Reilly Network, August 29, 2000
1.139 louis 792: </strong></font><br>
793:
794: David Jorm's column notes the fact that OpenBSD ships with functioning IPv6
795: networking. He briefly walks through the procedure to get an OpenBSD system
796: to participate in "6bone", the transitional IPv6 network.
797: <p>
798:
799: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.143 louis 800: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=832">OpenBSD's Good
801: Example</a>, # RootPrompt.org, August 23, 2000
802: </strong></font><br>
803:
804: Noel moves on after his "Cracked!" series to look at other
805: security topics. This time, he installs OpenBSD, fully expecting some
806: brutally stripped-down system good for nothing but firewalls and sniffers,
807: but finds a functional desktop environment. OpenBSD sets an example for
808: other systems: <i>"It is my opinion that there are many lessons
809: in how OpenBSD is put together that the Linux community needs to take
810: note of"</i>.
811: <p>
812:
813: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.141 louis 814: <a
815: href="http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/22/0132212&mode=thread">The
816: Brit and the Big Boy</a>, NewsForge, August 22, 2000
817: </strong></font><br>
818:
819: NewsForge Columnist Julie Bresnick pens a quirky profile of Tom Yates,
820: co-author with Wes Sonnenreich of
821: <a href="http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/35366-3.htm">Building
822: Linux and OpenBSD Firewalls</a>.
823: <p>
824:
825: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.155 deraadt 826: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/FredMoody/moody000816.html">Linux
1.136 louis 827: Revisited</a>, ABCnews.com, August 16, 2000
828: </strong></font><br>
829:
830: In an article better entitled "Moody battles on", columnist Fred
831: Moody continues his lone battle over the Linux security record. He rates
832: OpenBSD as the choice of those who expect "much, much more" and
833: quotes Marcus Ranum, CTO of Network Flight Recorder, talking about OpenBSD's
834: code audit. <i>"They did some really interesting stuff; they did complete
835: code audits of major hunks of the operating system and found huge, horrible,
836: gigantic holes that all the other UNIX derivatives had been ignoring."</i>
837: <p>
838:
839: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.134 louis 840: <a href="http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,17541,00.html">The
841: World's Most Secure Operating System</a>, The Industry Standard, August 14,
842: 2000
843: </strong></font><br>
844:
845: <i>"A lone Canadian is reshaping the way software gets written. Is the world
846: paying attention?"</i>. (Well, actually he's got help). Veteran technology
847: reporter Brendan Koerner interviews Theo de Raadt, security vendors and
848: writers to compare OpenBSD's code audit and "secure by default" credo
849: against current industry practices.
850: <p>
851:
852: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.140 louis 853: <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
854: </strong></font><br>
855:
856: David Jorm details the steps to configuring OpenSSH's sshd, and how to set up
857: a secure Web server using OpenBSD's SSL support. He also looks at OpenBSD's
858: security stance, the ongoing code audit and how to install security patches.
859: <p>
860:
861: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.133 louis 862: <a href="http://lwn.net/2000/0803/security.php3">OpenBSD runs fuzz</a>, Linux
863: Weekly News, August 3, 2000
864: </strong></font><br>
865:
866: Linux Weekly News security editor Liz Coolbaugh picks up on a Bugtraq thread
867: about <code>fuzz</code>, a tool that tests commands with randomly generated
868: command line arguments. Lead developer Theo de Raadt ran it against OpenBSD
869: and found routine coding errors in about a dozen commands, none security-related.
870: The article reprints de Raadt's posting and comments. Though the exercise was
871: worthwhile, the tool only points to the areas to check, and is no substitute for
872: careful code reviews, he concludes.
873: <p>
874:
875: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.131 louis 876: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/08/01/OpenBSD.html">OpenBSD
877: in a Datacenter Scale Environment</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, August 1, 2000
878: </strong></font><br>
879:
880: David Jorm's OpenBSD Explained column talks about IT Manager Grant Bailey's initial
881: skepticism about OpenBSD being able to handle the load for www.2600.org.au's Web and
882: FTP site. On a tight budget, he set up a K-6 450MHz system, with 128 MB RAM and an
883: IDE drive, got a few friends with cable modems to pound on it, and was pleasantly
884: surprised.<br>
1.133 louis 885: <i>Update (Aug.4/2000): Grant writes that he has just seen the site's biggest day:
886: 56GB outbound to everywhere on the Internet with 260 clients at one point, limited
887: mostly by the RAM.</i>
1.131 louis 888: <p>
889:
1.118 louis 890: <h2>July, 2000</h2>
891:
892: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.125 deraadt 893: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1107318">
894: Linux developers hunt for kernel bugs</a>, vnunet.com, July 26, 2000
895: </strong></font><br>
896:
897: John Leyden talks about the new Linux Kernel Auditing Project, and how
898: last month some people decided that Linux needed some auditing. It is
899: about time. The article mentions that
900: <i>"OpenBSD, another Unix-like open source
901: operating system, has been subject to an ongoing security audit
902: since 1996."</i><br>
1.127 jufi 903: The article apparently used to quote Roy Hills of NTA as saying
1.125 deraadt 904: <i>""This is the first time I've heard of an audit of the whole of a
905: general purpose operating system kernel"</i>, but it has been
1.199 pvalchev 906: amended since.
1.125 deraadt 907: <p>
908:
909: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.121 deraadt 910: <a href="http://www.securite.org/interview/theoderaadt/">
1.124 jufi 911: Interview: Theo de Raadt</a>, Sécurité.org, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 912: </strong></font><br>
913:
914: Nicolas Fischbach caught up to Theo de Raadt at CanSecWest in Vancouver a while
915: back, and the resulting interview discusses Secure by Default and the genesis
916: of OpenSSH.
917: <p>
918:
919: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 920: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000726.html"> -->
921: IPSec - We've Got a Ways To Go (Part II), Security Portal, July 26, 2000
1.121 deraadt 922: </strong></font><br>
923:
924: Kurt Seifried discusses various key management and tunnel modes and extensions
1.142 deraadt 925: possible with IPSEC implementations, including OpenBSD's ethernet over IPSEC
1.121 deraadt 926: bridging.
927: <p>
928:
929: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
930: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution236.html">
931: Setting up OpenBSD 2.7 as a cable NAT system </a>, BSD Today, July 24, 2000
1.120 deraadt 932: </strong></font><br>
933:
1.121 deraadt 934: Vlad Sedach writes about his experiences in setting up a ipnat/ipf box based
935: on OpenBSD as his firewall.
1.120 deraadt 936: <p>
937:
938: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 939: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/News/1106857">
940: Most secure operating system update uses Digital Signature Algorithm</a>, vnunet.com, July 17, 2000
941: </strong></font><br>
942:
943: James Middleton lists the features of the new 2.7 release.
944: <p>
945:
946: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.118 louis 947: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 948: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Features230.html">
949: OpenBSD is installed -- now what?</a>, BSD Today, July 14, 2000
1.119 reinhard 950: </strong></font><br>
951:
1.120 deraadt 952: As a follow-up to <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">
953: Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1.119 reinhard 954: Clifford Smith explains how to set <i>"up OpenBSD as a single-user,
955: desktop system with basic information on installing the ports tree,
956: setting up KDE, stopping unneeded services and using IPFilter."</i>
957: <p>
958:
959: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.154 louis 960: <a href="http://napalm.firest0rm.org/issue6.txt">IPsec Crash Course
961: (part 1)</a>, Napalm, July 13, 2000
962: </strong></font><br>
963:
964: Technical article about IPSec by ajax, discussing the networking basics,
965: the key management daemons and various free and commercial implementations.
966: This goes well beyond the usual how-to articles to explain the underlying
967: protocols and their quirks.
968: <p>
969:
970: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 971: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32935">
972: In the shadow of the penguin</a>, Computing Canada, July 7, 2000
1.128 louis 973: </strong></font><br>
974:
975: Viewpoint columnist Matthew Friedman tries to set the record straight -- open
976: source is not all about Linux. He focuses on the rock-solid networking performance
977: and security and speaks with OpenBSD's Theo de Raadt and FreeBSD's Jordan
1.137 louis 978: K. Hubbard.
1.128 louis 979: <p>
980:
981: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.139 louis 982: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MontyManley/MontyManley8.html">Be
983: An Engineer, Not An Artist</a>, OS Opinion, July 6, 2000
984: </strong></font><br>
985:
986: Monty Manley throws open the debate about artistic whim versus solid engineering
987: in open source software development. Too few, like the OpenBSD auditors, are
988: willing to sweat the details to make the code really work, he writes.
989: <p>
990:
991: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.119 reinhard 992: <a href="
1.120 deraadt 993: http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/July/Contribution221.html">
994: Attempting to install OpenBSD under VMware</a>, BSD Today, July 6, 2000
1.118 louis 995: </strong></font><br>
996:
997: BSD Today reader Jeremy Weatherford tries his hand at installing OpenBSD
998: on VMware, a system that allows multiple OSes to run concurrently on the
999: same hardware. We can't fault him for trying, but being new to both OpenBSD
1000: and VMware, he might have been a tad too ambitious, considering VMware
1001: doesn't even list OpenBSD as a supported "guest" OS.
1002: <p>
1003:
1.104 louis 1004: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
1005:
1.113 naddy 1006: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.114 louis 1007: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/Features213.html">Installing OpenBSD 2.7</a>,
1008: BSD Today, June 29, 2000
1009: </strong></font><br>
1010:
1011: <i>So you want to try out OpenBSD, right? Sounds like your kind of operating system,
1012: right? Patrick Mullen installs and reviews the 2.7 release</i>. Another first-hand
1013: experience installing OpenBSD, with a sprinkling of humour because these articles can
1014: be a bit dry.
1015: <p>
1016:
1017: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.213 horacio 1018: <a href="http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0006/23.macosx.shtml">
1019: Road to Mac OS X: Security and OS X</a>,
1020: MacCentral Online, June 23, 2000
1021: </strong></font><br>
1022: On one of a series of articles from MacCentral Online
1023: columnist Dennis Sellers, he attempts to answer Mac OS users'
1024: questions on the move forward to Mac OS X. With concern to
1025: security, he quotes Mark Block saying:<br>
1026: <em>"Keep in mind that just because it's UNIX-based
1027: doesn't mean it's susceptible to crackers. OpenBSD is an
1028: example of an extremely secure flavor of UNIX."</em>
1029: <p>
1030:
1031: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1032: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=33044">
1033: BSD (and Joe) are Canadian</a>, letter to the editor, Computing Canada, June 23,
1.137 louis 1034: 2000
1.128 louis 1035: </strong></font><br>
1036:
1037: "Dave the Canadian software guy" wrote to complain about a column
1038: entitled "The computing road less travelled". The article on
1039: alternative OSes never mentioned OpenBSD, published in Canada, or NetBSD,
1040: the sole BSD at Linux Quebec in April. "Is it time for a Joe the Canadian
1041: commercial for Canadian Software?", Dave asks.<br>
1.137 louis 1042: <i>The letter is further down the page</i>.
1.128 louis 1043: <p>
1044:
1045: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1046: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000621.html"> -->
1047: Securing Your Network With OpenBSD, Kurt's Closet, Security Portal, June 21, 2000
1.113 naddy 1048: </strong></font><br>
1.110 louis 1049:
1050: Kurt Seifried looks at some new features in OpenBSD 2.7 and recommends it
1051: as a platform for patrolling your network. He also gives a sampling of
1052: the many security tools available for intrusion detection, vulnerability
1053: analysis and network management, all available from the
1.113 naddy 1054: <a href="ports.html">"Ports" collection</a>.
1055: <p>
1.110 louis 1056:
1.117 louis 1057: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a
1058: href="http://www.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2589471,00.html">Exposed
1059: to a Web of viruses</a>, eWeek.com, June 19, 2000
1060: </strong></font><br>
1061:
1062: Peter Coffee, eWeek Labs, mentions OpenBSD in an article subtitled
1063: "IT wanted integration; Microsoft delivered. Now both must fix lax
1064: security". Near the end (it's there, really), he writes:
1065: <i>Those who champion the open-source process point to projects
1066: such as the OpenBSD operating system, with its tremendous security
1067: record, as proof of concept. But there are other examples, such as
1068: loopholes in Kerberos code that went unnoticed for years, that show
1069: the limits of volunteer effort</i>. Once again, we note that published
1070: source code doesn't automatically imply a security review. It won't
1071: happen by itself: people have to <i>want</i> to do it.
1072: <p>
1073:
1.113 naddy 1074: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.108 louis 1075: <a href="reprints/pr27.html">OpenBSD 2.7 press release</a>, June 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1076: </strong></font><br>
1.108 louis 1077:
1078: This press release was translated into several languages and distributed to the
1079: trade press and Internet news sites.
1.113 naddy 1080: <p>
1.108 louis 1081:
1.113 naddy 1082: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.106 louis 1083: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/June/News196.html">Coming
1084: soon: a real-time OpenBSD?</a>, BSD Today, June 14, 2000
1.113 naddy 1085: </strong></font><br>
1.106 louis 1086:
1087: Randy Lewis of RTMX explains why they picked OpenBSD and how their real-time
1088: extensions will be folded back into the OpenBSD source tree in time for the
1089: next release. Interview by Jeremy C. Reed.
1.113 naddy 1090: <p>
1.106 louis 1091:
1.113 naddy 1092: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.107 louis 1093: <a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/06/13/OpenBSD.html">Introduction
1094: to OpenBSD Networking</a>, BSD DevCenter, O'Reilly Network, June 13, 2000
1.113 naddy 1095: </strong></font><br>
1.107 louis 1096:
1097: David Jorm, no stranger to OpenBSD, gives a detailed tour of the basic steps for
1098: setting up an OpenBSD system as a gateway with a LAN interface and a PPP connection.
1099: He also points out the little differences that could trip up somebody just
1100: arriving from the Linux world.
1.113 naddy 1101: <p>
1.107 louis 1102:
1.113 naddy 1103: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1104: <a href="http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=1247/urm0006c/">
1105: The state of the daemon</a>, UNIX Review, June 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1106: </strong></font><br>
1.105 louis 1107:
1108: Michael Lucas reviews the state of the art for BSD-derived systems,
1109: and finds much cause for optimism.
1.113 naddy 1110: "OpenBSD delves further into constructive paranoia", he writes.
1.105 louis 1111: Agreed, security is a state of mind, but unless the rash of serious incidents
1112: abates, it's not really paranoia.
1.113 naddy 1113: <p>
1.105 louis 1114:
1.113 naddy 1115: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.184 louis 1116: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/articles/june00/columns3_open_sources.shtml">Security
1.104 louis 1117: By DEFAULT</a>, OPEN SOURCES, Information Security, June 2000
1.113 naddy 1118: </strong></font><br>
1.104 louis 1119:
1.113 naddy 1120: <i>OpenBSD is one OS that's likely to be voted "Most Secure."
1121: So why not use it for all enterprise apps?</i> Columnist Pete Loshin
1.104 louis 1122: looks at OpenBSD as a serious contender for secure Internet servers.
1.130 deraadt 1123: <p>
1.104 louis 1124:
1.121 deraadt 1125: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1126: <a href="http://www.americasnetwork.com/issues/2000issues/20000601/20000601_hackers.htm">
1127: Meet the hackers</a>, America's Network, June 1, 2000
1128: </strong></font><br>
1129:
1130: Patrick Neighly writes a long and detailed article about the hows and whys of
1131: the hacker community. Near the end, he interviews a hacker who states that
1132: <i>"OpenBSD tends to be a proactive security solution - they find holes
1133: before they're posted on Bugtraq"</i>
1134: <p>
1135:
1.85 louis 1136: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
1137:
1.113 naddy 1138: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1139: <a href="http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=493">Cracked! Part4: The
1.99 louis 1140: Sniffer</a>, # RootPrompt.org, May 31, 2000
1.113 naddy 1141: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1142:
1143: Noel continues his chronicle of a cracker attack on his LAN.
1144: In part 4, he notes that even local user vulnerabilities cannot
1145: be overlooked because you must assume that an attacker will
1146: eventually figure out a login/password. As part of his conclusions,
1147: he mentions he would like to explore OpenBSD for systems that
1148: need user accounts. The first three parts also make for interesting
1149: reading for all system administrators.
1.113 naddy 1150: <p>
1.99 louis 1151:
1.113 naddy 1152: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1153: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000526E30E">Flaw
1.100 louis 1154: found in PGP 5.0</a>, Computer World, May 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1155: </strong></font><br>
1.100 louis 1156:
1157: PGP 5.0 was found to have a serious coding error under Linux and
1158: OpenBSD, where it replaced the random data obtained from /dev/random
1159: with a string of '1' digits when generating key pairs under certain
1160: conditions.
1.113 naddy 1161: <p>
1.100 louis 1162:
1.113 naddy 1163: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1164: <a href="http://www.beopen.com/features/articles/security_article.html">Security
1.95 louis 1165: Beyond the Garden of Eden</a>, BeOpen.com, May 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1166: </strong></font><br>
1.95 louis 1167:
1168: Sam Williams strikes again. He interviews OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt
1169: and Tom Vogt, a lead developer of Nexus, a "maximum security" Linux
1170: distribution unveiled on May 9. This article contrasts two different
1171: approaches to security.
1.113 naddy 1172: <p>
1.95 louis 1173:
1.113 naddy 1174: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1175: <a href="http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/story?id=3921a9080">OpenBSD
1.92 louis 1176: perfects security by one-upmanship</a>, Upside Today, May 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1177: </strong></font><br>
1.92 louis 1178:
1179: Freelance writer Sam Williams captures the dynamics of the OpenBSD
1180: development effort in OpenBSD, dubbing it "geeking out for perfection".
1.94 louis 1181: Williams also takes note of OpenBSD's business-friendly non commercial
1.92 louis 1182: stance -- no corporate backers, yet plenty of commercial products
1183: with embedded OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1184: <p>
1.92 louis 1185:
1.113 naddy 1186: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1187: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?vdb=vdb&content=/vdb/stats.html">Vulnerability
1.91 louis 1188: Database Statistics</a>, Security Focus, May 15, 2000
1.113 naddy 1189: </strong></font><br>
1.91 louis 1190:
1191: "3 out of 2 people can't figure out statistics", the saying goes. In this light,
1192: we'd like to present Security Focus's summary of vulnerabilities. Read
1193: the disclaimers and feel free to dispute the results, but you have to
1194: admit it makes OpenBSD look good compared to other widely used OSes.
1195: We think the most important chart is the top one, total vulnerabilities.
1196: The upward trend is disturbing; it means the industry still doesn't
1.113 naddy 1197: "get it", and the users who trade off security for feature
1.91 louis 1198: creep are delivering the wrong message.
1.113 naddy 1199: <p>
1.91 louis 1200:
1.113 naddy 1201: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1202: <!-- <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/closet/closet20000510.html"> -->
1203: Why We're Doomed to Failure, Security Portal, May 10, 2000
1.113 naddy 1204: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1205:
1206: Kurt Seifried talks about what people can do to promote security and
1207: protect themselves against the now-commonplace attacks. His first
1208: suggestion is for software vendors to audit code like OpenBSD did, but he
1209: feels that the effort and demand for knowledgeable programmers is too
1210: great for this approach to succeed. Instead, he suggests add-ons such as
1211: various Linux patches, development tools and replacement libraries. We
1212: think he gave up too easily: by accepting mudflaps in the place of
1213: airbags, he is taking the heat off software vendors to clean up the
1214: defects in their products.
1.113 naddy 1215: <p>
1.90 louis 1216:
1.113 naddy 1217: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.126 deraadt 1218: <a href="http://www.vnunet.com/Features/27240">
1219: They're after your data</a>, vnunet.com, May 17, 2000
1220: </strong></font><br>
1221: In a discussion related to government hacking, Dearbail Jordan interviews
1222: a random hacker who states that <i>"As far as operating systems go,
1223: OpenBSD, a completely free Unix variant, is probably the most secure
1224: C2-level Unix available today."</i> Well, OpenBSD is not C2, mostly
1225: because the Orange Book C2 standard is for Trusted systems, not Secure
1226: systems, but the remainder of his comment is probably a correct viewpoint.
1227: <p>
1228:
1229: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.87 louis 1230: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/000502db52">Open
1231: Source Smugglers</a>, ComputerWorld, May 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1232: </strong></font><br>
1.87 louis 1233:
1.113 naddy 1234: "Psssstt! Wanna a good, reliable operating system on the cheap? Thing is,
1235: you just can't tell your boss about it" Technology writer Peter Wayner
1.87 louis 1236: tells of the techies who break the rules and sneak open source
1237: systems on the job. He mentions the "security-conscious" OpenBSD as a
1238: successful secure e-commerce server against an rival NT implementation,
1239: as well as how Marcus Rannum embeds OpenBSD in the Network Flight Recorder
1240: IDS appliance to sidestep NT vs. UNIX prejudices.
1.113 naddy 1241: <p>
1.87 louis 1242:
1.113 naddy 1243: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1244: <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/000502/va_global__1.html">PowerCrypt
1245: Encryption Accelerator Endorsed by OpenBSD</a>, Business Wire, May 2, 2000
1.113 naddy 1246: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1247:
1248: Press release from Global Technologies Group, Inc. announcing OpenBSD
1249: support for their PowerCrypt IPSec hardware accelerators cards.
1.113 naddy 1250: <p>
1.85 louis 1251:
1.113 naddy 1252: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 1253: <a href="http://www.bsdtoday.com/2000/May/Features138.html">An experience
1254: installing OpenBSD</a>, BSD Today, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1255: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 1256:
1257: Another "how I installed OpenBSD" article. Jeremy C. Reed writes
1.113 naddy 1258: a blow-by-blow, prompt & response chronicle of how he installed OpenBSD
1.89 louis 1259: 2.6, to the point of setting up X, the blackbox window manager and
1260: Netscape -- elapsed time, 4 hours and 38 minutes. Phew.
1.113 naddy 1261: <p>
1.89 louis 1262:
1.113 naddy 1263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.85 louis 1264: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/200005/adventure.html">My Adventures
1265: In OpenBSD 2.6</a>, Daemon News, May 2000
1.113 naddy 1266: </strong></font><br>
1.85 louis 1267:
1268: Alison describes how she gave in to the geekier side of her nature and
1269: rescued a castaway PC and put OpenBSD on it. "Contrary to popular
1270: opinion, however, I think it's not just a matter of reliability," she
1271: writes, "but also of clarity and simplicity - two very important and
1272: oft-overlooked characteristics of computer software.".
1273:
1.78 deraadt 1274: <h2>April, 2000</h2>
1.74 louis 1275:
1.113 naddy 1276: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1277: <a href="http://e-zine.nluug.nl/hold.html?cid=91">Interview with OpenBSD's
1.160 jufi 1278: Theo de Raadt</a>, <font color="#4669ad"><sup>eup</sup></font> E-zine,
1.83 louis 1279: April 20, 2000
1.113 naddy 1280: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1281:
1282: In this interview by Daniel De Kok, lead developer Theo de Raadt comments
1283: on the BSDI/FreeBSD merger, OpenBSD as an embedded OS, and future plans for
1284: OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1285: <p>
1.83 louis 1286:
1.113 naddy 1287: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.93 louis 1288: <a href="reprints/article_20000419.html">Security Experts Say Proprietary
1289: Code Isn't Scrutinized Well Enough</a>, SOURCES, April 19, 2000
1.113 naddy 1290: </strong></font><br>
1.93 louis 1291:
1292: This bulletin discusses security concerns raised by recent reports of
1293: vulnerabilities in commercial software such as backdoors and automatic
1.113 naddy 1294: registration forms. The article quotes Jerry Harold, president & co-founder of
1.93 louis 1295: Network Security Technologies Inc. "This is why NetSec builds its products
1296: on an operating system (OpenBSD) that has made security its number one goal."
1.113 naddy 1297: <p>
1.93 louis 1298:
1.113 naddy 1299: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1300: <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/topnews/os20000417.html">Open
1.83 louis 1301: Source - Why it's Good for Security</a>, SecurityPortal.com, April 17, 2000
1.113 naddy 1302: </strong></font><br>
1.82 aaron 1303:
1.83 louis 1304: In another FUD-fighting article, security writer Kurt Seifried and
1305: Bastille Linux project leader Jay Beale refute a recent well-circulated
1306: article saying open source software is more vulnerable because the
1307: black hats can find bugs just by reading the source. If this were the
1308: case, they argue, OpenBSD could not have achieved its security record.
1.113 naddy 1309: They counter the claim by demolishing "security through
1310: obscurity", the myth that just won't go away.
1311: <p>
1.82 aaron 1312:
1.113 naddy 1313: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1314: <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com/commentary/19">Wide Open Source</a>,
1.83 louis 1315: SecurityFocus.com, April 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1316: </strong></font><br>
1.80 louis 1317:
1.83 louis 1318: Elias Levy of BUGTRAQ fame discusses the security of open- vs. closed-source
1319: software. OpenBSD developers are mentioned first among a few groups of people
1320: who care about auditing code for security vulnerabilities.
1.113 naddy 1321: <p>
1.80 louis 1322:
1.113 naddy 1323: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1324: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200004/badpressedit">
1.77 deraadt 1325: Bad Press</a>,
1326: 32Bits Online, April 2000
1.113 naddy 1327: </strong></font><br>
1.77 deraadt 1328:
1329: Slamming some recent press which had said that Open Source (and in particular
1.113 naddy 1330: Linux) leads to more software security problems, Clifford Smith states<br>
1.77 deraadt 1331: <b>"If there is ONE definitive proof that the source code being opened up for
1332: review provides the opportunity to create secure operating systems, OpenBSD
1333: is that proof."</b> (his emphasis)
1.113 naddy 1334: <p>
1.78 deraadt 1335:
1336: <h2>March, 2000</h2>
1337:
1.113 naddy 1338: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1339: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20000329.html"> -->
1340: Linux is a security risk, I don't think so!,
1.78 deraadt 1341: Security Portal, March 29, 2000
1.113 naddy 1342: </strong></font><br>
1.78 deraadt 1343:
1344: Columnist Kurt Seifried uses OpenBSD's code audit as an example to
1345: refute a FUD piece on a major computer industry website that claims
1346: that Linux is a security risk because the bad guys can find the holes
1347: simply by reading the source code.
1.113 naddy 1348: <p>
1.74 louis 1349:
1.113 naddy 1350: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.88 louis 1351: <a href="http://www.linux.com/interviews/20000308/44/">The
1352: Kurt Seifried interview</a>, Linux.com, March 8, 2000
1.113 naddy 1353: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1354:
1355: The roles have changed; security columnist Kurt Seifried is now the subject.
1356: He discusses his role at <a href="http://www.securityportal.com/">Security
1357: Portal</a>, the state of Linux security, OpenBSD's security model and the
1358: Linux hardening scripts like Bastille Linux. He's pessimistic about the
1359: future and predicts that with management apathy towards security,
1360: "we're in for 10-50 more years of miserable computer security problems".
1.113 naddy 1361: <p>
1.88 louis 1362:
1.113 naddy 1363: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.115 louis 1364: <a href="reprints/article_20000306.html">Open source software:
1.116 louis 1365: Ready for Credit Union Primetime?</a>, CUES Tech Port, March 6, 2000
1.113 naddy 1366: </strong></font><br>
1.81 louis 1367:
1368: An article explaining the trade-offs of using open source software, how it
1369: might be applied to credit union enterprises and some caveats about the
1370: learning curve for staff not already familiar with UNIX-like operating
1371: systems. Author Tom DeSot strongly recommends OpenBSD in this article
1.115 louis 1372: written for credit union IS managers.
1.113 naddy 1373: <p>
1.81 louis 1374:
1.113 naddy 1375: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1376: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-03-2000/f_swol-03-silicon.html">The
1.90 louis 1377: Unix players change, but the (r)evolution continues</a>, SunWorld, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1378: </strong></font><br>
1.90 louis 1379:
1380: Rich Morin puts the 80's UNIX history of fragmentation in perspective by
1381: examining the creative tensions between the five operating systems derived
1382: from 4.4BSD-Lite. Rather than repeating the platitude of how the BSD-derived
1383: operating systems should unite, Morin's Silicon Carny column shows that the
1384: projects and companies cooperate even though they have diverging goals. And
1385: now that Sun has cautiously moved to open source some of its source, how
1386: will the open source world react, he asks.
1.113 naddy 1387: <p>
1.90 louis 1388:
1.113 naddy 1389: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1390: <a href="http://boardwatch.internet.com/mag/2000/mar/bwm79.html">Getting
1.76 louis 1391: to know OpenBSD</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, March 2000
1.113 naddy 1392: </strong></font><br>
1.71 louis 1393:
1394: UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl continues his survey of the freenix alternatives
1395: for ISPs with an interview with Louis Bertrand. The author also discusses
1396: the relative merits of OpenBSD and how ISPs might want to use it for a
1.76 louis 1397: competitive advantage.
1.113 naddy 1398: <p>
1.71 louis 1399:
1.69 deraadt 1400: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
1.70 louis 1401:
1.113 naddy 1402: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1403: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/research/ssh-part2.html"> -->
1404: All About SSH - Part II: OpenSSH, Security Portal, February 28, 2000
1.113 naddy 1405: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1406:
1407: Seán Boran wraps up his look at SSH with an article devoted to OpenSSH
1408: running on OpenBSD and other OSes, mentioning problems porting OpenSSH to
1409: platforms without good crypto support.
1.113 naddy 1410: <p>
1.70 louis 1411:
1.113 naddy 1412: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1413: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000216.html"> -->
1414: Firewalling with IPF, Security Portal, February 16, 2000
1.113 naddy 1415: </strong></font><br>
1.68 louis 1416:
1417: Kurt Seifried, author of the Linux Administrators Security Guide, explains
1.111 jufi 1418: how to set up packet filtering with
1.113 naddy 1419: <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 1420: even though his article isn't aimed at any specific OS.
1.113 naddy 1421: <p>
1.68 louis 1422:
1.113 naddy 1423: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.211 horacio 1424: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet20000209.html"> -->
1425: OpenBSD 2.6 - new features,
1.64 louis 1426: Security Portal, February 9, 2000
1.113 naddy 1427: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1428:
1.111 jufi 1429: Kurt Seifried reviews OpenBSD 2.6 and finds new features like
1430: <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>, Apache
1.64 louis 1431: DSOs, and new device drivers. He also finds comfort in an old friend, the
1.113 naddy 1432: "secure by default" installation.
1433: <p>
1.64 louis 1434:
1.113 naddy 1435: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.152 deraadt 1436: <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/cwi/story/0,1199,NAV47_STO41147,00.html">Three
1.66 louis 1437: Unixlike systems may be better than Linux</a>, ComputerWorld, February 7, 2000
1.113 naddy 1438: </strong></font><br>
1.66 louis 1439:
1.113 naddy 1440: We really like Simson when he writes <i>"But if you're trying to get the
1.66 louis 1441: most for your money or if you want a higher level of security, take a look at
1.113 naddy 1442: the BSDs. The rewards can be considerable."</i> But he misses the point
1.66 louis 1443: about strong crypto because of the fuss over 128-bit browsers. The RSA patent
1444: has been a more effective muzzle on innovation than the export prohibitions.
1445: Also note OpenBSD and FreeBSD also integrate IPv6 in their current codebase.
1.113 naddy 1446: <p>
1.66 louis 1447:
1.113 naddy 1448: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1449: <a href="http://www.32bitsonline.com/article.php3?file=issues/200002/fbsd34&page=1">Review
1.83 louis 1450: of FreeBSD 3.4</a>, 32BitsOnline, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1451: </strong></font><br>
1.83 louis 1452:
1453: In a review of FreeBSD 3.4, the author, Clifford Smith, was impressed
1.113 naddy 1454: enough about OpenBSD to say "<i>OpenBSD is probably the most secure
1.83 louis 1455: distribution out of the box because it comes with a source code that has
1456: been given a complete security audit. It also comes with KERBEROS enabled
1457: out of the chute, OpenSSL and ssh is part of the distro now, too. IPFilter
1.113 naddy 1458: works immediately. Just Brilliant."</i>
1459: <p>
1.83 louis 1460:
1.113 naddy 1461: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1462: <a href="http://www.infosecuritymag.com/feb2000/Linux.htm">Securing Linux</a>,
1.64 louis 1463: Information Security, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1464: </strong></font><br>
1.64 louis 1465:
1466: Pete Loshin surveys the state of the industry in Linux and UNIX-like
1.67 louis 1467: security. He highlights an emerging problem, novice Linux users
1468: who may unknowingly leave installation holes, or inadvertently create some.
1.64 louis 1469: The OpenBSD sidebar explains the goals and purpose of OpenBSD, and highlights
1470: its reputation among security experts.
1.113 naddy 1471: <p>
1.64 louis 1472:
1.113 naddy 1473: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1474: <a href="http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/KeithRankin%20/Keith%20Rankin1.html">FreeBSD,
1.65 louis 1475: OpenBSD and SuSE 6.2 Eval Review</a>, OS Opinion, February 2000
1.113 naddy 1476: </strong></font><br>
1.65 louis 1477:
1478: Can't decide? Let's try a bunch. Veteran computer jockey Keith Rankin
1479: compares a Linux distro and two of the BSDs. Long and quite detailed.
1.113 naddy 1480: <p>
1.65 louis 1481:
1.69 deraadt 1482: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
1483:
1.113 naddy 1484: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1485: <a href="http://www.epinions.com/cmd-review-7105-3AF042F-388EBC43-prod1">Secure
1.88 louis 1486: by default - a review of OpenBSD</a>, Epinions.com, January 26, 2000
1.113 naddy 1487: </strong></font><br>
1.88 louis 1488:
1489: OpenBSD gets a five-star rating in this reader contributed review by
1490: Justin Roth. It's a short glowing article that focuses on the security
1491: of OpenBSD. The reviewer cautions however that it's only secure if
1492: the administrator is vigilant.
1.113 naddy 1493: <p>
1.88 louis 1494:
1.113 naddy 1495: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1496: <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 1497: </strong></font><br>
1.60 louis 1498:
1499: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch notes a small victory for open source
1.113 naddy 1500: when the US government recognised it as being for "the
1501: Public Good" in the recently relaxed cryptography export rules.
1.60 louis 1502: He quotes Theo mentioning that the RSA patent has had a far greater
1503: chilling effect on US-based cryptography than the export prohibitions.
1.113 naddy 1504: <p>
1.60 louis 1505:
1.113 naddy 1506: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1507: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1508: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.58 louis 1509: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.113 naddy 1510: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1511:
1512: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
1513: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
1514: and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 1515: <p>
1.58 louis 1516:
1.113 naddy 1517: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.136 louis 1518: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.113 naddy 1519: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1520:
1521: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
1522: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
1.113 naddy 1523: <p>
1.53 louis 1524:
1.113 naddy 1525: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.99 louis 1526: <a href="http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/sec/0103sec2.html">Does 'open'
1527: mean secure?</a>, NetworkWorld Fusion Newsletters, January 5, 2000
1.113 naddy 1528: </strong></font><br>
1.99 louis 1529:
1530: Security Portal founder Jim Reavis calls OpenBSD "Linux's Linux". We're not
1531: sure what it means, but he was making the point that public scrutiny of
1532: source code helps security, so it must be a compliment.
1.113 naddy 1533: <p>
1.99 louis 1534:
1.113 naddy 1535: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.58 louis 1536: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/sr/stories/news/0,4538,2416865,00.html">Giving
1.113 naddy 1537: Back</a>, Sm@rt Reseller Online, January 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1538:
1539: Linux columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes mostly about VA Linux
1540: creating a source repository for open source projects, but there's an
1.113 naddy 1541: interesting quote: "Whether an open-source program runs on OpenBSD,
1.58 louis 1542: Palm or even Windows, so long as it's an open-source program it's game
1.113 naddy 1543: for SourceForge." OpenBSD, soon to be a household word!<p>
1.58 louis 1544:
1.113 naddy 1545: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.214 horacio 1546: <a href="http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=32876">
1547: There's more to open source than just Linux</a>, Computing Canada, January 2000
1.128 louis 1548: </strong></font><br>
1549:
1550: "Lack of consistency in different versions of distributions is leading some
1551: administrators to re-examine their approach", writes Linux columnist Gene
1552: Wilburn. He suggests the BSD systems as an alternative because they offer
1553: a "high level of consistency and integrity".
1554: <p>
1555:
1556: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1557: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
1.58 louis 1558: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1559: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1560:
1561: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
1562: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
1.113 naddy 1563: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
1.58 louis 1564:
1.113 naddy 1565: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 1566: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.113 naddy 1567: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 1568:
1569: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
1.111 jufi 1570: in
1.113 naddy 1571: <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 1572: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 1573: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.113 naddy 1574: <p>
1.53 louis 1575:
1.113 naddy 1576: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1577: <a href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.58 louis 1578: A Home-Grown Operating System?</a>, Alberta Venture Magazine,
1579: January/February, 2000
1.113 naddy 1580: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 1581:
1.58 louis 1582: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1583: <p>
1.51 deraadt 1584:
1.69 deraadt 1585: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
1586:
1.113 naddy 1587: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1588: <a href="http://securityportal.com/closet/closet19991222.html">OpenSource
1.58 louis 1589: projects - what I learned from Bastille (and others)</a>, Security
1590: Portal, December 23, 1999
1.113 naddy 1591: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1592:
1.58 louis 1593: Kurt Seifried
1594: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1595: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>, discusses
1596: the effort needed to create a Linux distribution. He mentions OpenBSD's
1.113 naddy 1597: code audit as a reference point for securing the OS.<p>
1.51 deraadt 1598:
1.113 naddy 1599: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1600: <a href="http://serverwatch.internet.com/news/1999_12_03_a.html">OpenBSD
1.96 louis 1601: 2.6 Now Available</a>, Server Watch, December 3, 1999
1.113 naddy 1602: </strong></font><br>
1.96 louis 1603:
1604: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 1605: <p>
1.96 louis 1606:
1.113 naddy 1607: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1608: <a href="http://www.tekpress.com/Archives/1999/Dec/openbsd.html">OpenBSD
1.86 louis 1609: Review</a>, TekPress.COM, December 1999
1.113 naddy 1610: </strong></font><br>
1.86 louis 1611:
1612: Vlad Sedach offers a detailed look at OpenBSD, its history, security stance
1613: and cryptography. He notes the lack of
1614: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/smp.html">multiprocessor support</a>
1615: but rates the security as best available, especially compared to NT.
1.113 naddy 1616: <p>
1.86 louis 1617:
1.69 deraadt 1618: <h2>November, 1999</h2>
1619:
1.113 naddy 1620: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1621: <a href="http://linux.com/featured_articles/19991115/206/">Buddying
1622: up to BSD: Part Three - Regrouping</a>, Linux.com, November 15, 1999
1.113 naddy 1623: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1624:
1625: Reviewer Matt Michie responds to critics of his previous OpenBSD
1626: article in an opinion piece that discusses OpenBSD and Linux advocacy.
1.113 naddy 1627: <p>
1.61 louis 1628:
1.113 naddy 1629: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1630: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/99/11/08/991108opsecwatch.xml">
1.48 louis 1631: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
1632: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1633: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 1634:
1635: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
1.113 naddy 1636: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
1.48 louis 1637: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
1638: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
1.113 naddy 1639: right -- or at least strives to".
1640: <p>
1.48 louis 1641:
1.113 naddy 1642: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.61 louis 1643: <a href="http://www.linux.com/featured_articles/19991108/200/">Buddying
1644: up to BSD: Part Two - OpenBSD</a>, Linux.com, November 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1645: </strong></font><br>
1.61 louis 1646: Reviewer Matt Michie narrates his experience with an FTP installation
1647: of OpenBSD 2.5 on an aging P-133. Despite trouble with the installation he
1648: recommends it to experienced Linux users who wish to broaden their horizons.
1649: Then the reader feedback flames him for his trouble.
1.113 naddy 1650: <p>
1.61 louis 1651:
1.113 naddy 1652: <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 1653: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1654: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 1655:
1656: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
1657: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
1658: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
1659: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
1.113 naddy 1660: <p>
1.46 louis 1661:
1.113 naddy 1662: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1663: <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/e-business/stories/0,5918,2386632,00.html">
1.58 louis 1664: Turning on the Zedz</a>, ZDNet, November 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 1665: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1666:
1667: Linux columnist Evan Leibovitch tries to make sense of the byzantine
1668: US crypto laws and offers some alternative crypto software and
1.113 naddy 1669: resources including OpenBSD and <a href="http://www.openssh.com/">OpenSSH</a>.<p>
1.58 louis 1670:
1.113 naddy 1671: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.70 louis 1672: <a href="http://www.boardwatch.com/mag/99/nov/bwm77pg4.html">Freenix
1673: flavors or, three demons and a penguin</a>, Boardwatch Magazine, November, 1999
1.113 naddy 1674: </strong></font><br>
1.70 louis 1675:
1676: Boardwatch Magazine's UNIX columnist Jeffrey Carl surveys the freenix choices
1677: for ISPs. We debate his conclusion that security and functionality are
1678: mutually exclusive choices. If that were the case, security conscious users
1679: would unplug from the Net and just send faxes.
1.113 naddy 1680: <p>
1.70 louis 1681:
1.69 deraadt 1682: <h2>October, 1999</h2>
1683:
1.211 horacio 1684: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1685: <!-- <a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html"> -->
1686: OpenBSD - a secure alternative,
1.44 philen 1687: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.113 naddy 1688: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 1689:
1690: Kurt Seifried
1691: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
1692: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
1693: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
1.113 naddy 1694: <p>
1.44 philen 1695:
1.113 naddy 1696: <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 1697: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.113 naddy 1698: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 1699:
1700: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
1.113 naddy 1701: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
1.41 louis 1702:
1.113 naddy 1703: <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 1704: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.113 naddy 1705: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 1706:
1707: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.113 naddy 1708: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 1709:
1.113 naddy 1710: <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 1711: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.113 naddy 1712: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 1713:
1714: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
1715: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
1716: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
1717: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
1.113 naddy 1718: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
1.36 louis 1719:
1.113 naddy 1720: <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 1721: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.113 naddy 1722: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 1723:
1.36 louis 1724: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
1.113 naddy 1725: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 1726:
1.113 naddy 1727: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1728: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
1729: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.113 naddy 1730: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 1731:
1732: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
1.113 naddy 1733: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
1.38 louis 1734:
1.69 deraadt 1735: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
1736:
1.113 naddy 1737: <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 1738: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.113 naddy 1739: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 1740:
1741: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
1742: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
1.113 naddy 1743: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 1744:
1.113 naddy 1745: <li><strong>
1.29 louis 1746: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.113 naddy 1747: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.160 jufi 1748: </font></strong><br>
1.29 louis 1749:
1750: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
1751: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 louis 1752: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
1753: terminal:
1.113 naddy 1754: <blockquote>
1755: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
1756: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
1757: <br>
1758: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
1759: </code>
1760: </blockquote>
1761: <p>
1762:
1763: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1764: <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>
1765: <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
1766: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 1767:
1768: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
1769: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 1770: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.113 naddy 1771: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 1772:
1.113 naddy 1773: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 1774: <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 1775: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 1776:
1777: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
1778: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
1779: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
1780: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
1781: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 louis 1782: operating system in the world."
1.113 naddy 1783: <p>
1.19 louis 1784:
1.113 naddy 1785: <li><strong>
1786: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.160 jufi 1787: </font></strong><br>
1.16 louis 1788:
1789: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
1790: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
1791: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 louis 1792: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
1793: to the archives, free registration required.
1.113 naddy 1794: <p>
1.16 louis 1795:
1.113 naddy 1796: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1797: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
1.57 louis 1798: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
1.113 naddy 1799: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 1800:
1.57 louis 1801: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
1802: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
1803: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
1.113 naddy 1804: Melbourne.<p>
1.57 louis 1805:
1.113 naddy 1806: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1807: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
1.57 louis 1808: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
1.113 naddy 1809: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1810:
1.113 naddy 1811: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 1812:
1.113 naddy 1813: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.215 horacio 1814: <a href="http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1174/sam9909d/">
1815: Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1816: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 1817:
1.23 louis 1818: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
1819: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
1820: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
1821: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
1822: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.113 naddy 1823: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 1824:
1.113 naddy 1825: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 1826: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
1827: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.113 naddy 1828: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 1829:
1.199 pvalchev 1830: Sean Sosik-Hamor describes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
1.47 louis 1831: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
1832: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
1833: installation.
1.113 naddy 1834: <p>
1.47 louis 1835:
1.113 naddy 1836: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1837: <a href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
1.57 louis 1838: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
1.113 naddy 1839: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1840:
1841: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
1.113 naddy 1842: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
1.57 louis 1843:
1.69 deraadt 1844: <h2>August, 1999</h2>
1845:
1.113 naddy 1846: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 1847: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 1848: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.113 naddy 1849: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 1850:
1851: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
1852: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 louis 1853: of OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1854: <p>
1.12 louis 1855:
1.113 naddy 1856: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 1857: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 1858: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.113 naddy 1859: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 1860:
1861: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
1862: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 1863: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
1864: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
1865: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
1866: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
1867: way down the page).
1.113 naddy 1868: <p>
1.8 deraadt 1869:
1.69 deraadt 1870: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
1.3 deraadt 1871:
1.113 naddy 1872: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 1873: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.113 naddy 1874: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 1875:
1876: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
1877: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
1878: available."
1.113 naddy 1879: <p>
1.6 deraadt 1880:
1.69 deraadt 1881: <h2>June, 1999</h2>
1882:
1.113 naddy 1883: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 1884: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.113 naddy 1885: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 1886:
1887: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
1888: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
1889: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
1890: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
1891: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
1.113 naddy 1892: <p>
1.33 louis 1893:
1.113 naddy 1894: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1895: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
1.57 louis 1896: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
1.113 naddy 1897: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1898:
1.113 naddy 1899: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
1900: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
1.57 louis 1901: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
1902: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
1903: an interesting read.
1.113 naddy 1904: <p>
1.57 louis 1905:
1.69 deraadt 1906: <h2>May, 1999</h2>
1907:
1.113 naddy 1908: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1909: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.69 deraadt 1910: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.113 naddy 1911: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 1912:
1913: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
1914: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.113 naddy 1915: <p>
1.69 deraadt 1916:
1.113 naddy 1917: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 1918: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
1919: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
1920: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.113 naddy 1921: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 1922:
1923: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
1.113 naddy 1924: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
1.39 louis 1925:
1.113 naddy 1926: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1927: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1928:
1.113 naddy 1929: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
1.23 louis 1930:
1.113 naddy 1931: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.68 louis 1932: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/chroot.html">Safe and friendly
1933: read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999
1.113 naddy 1934: </strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 1935:
1936: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
1.113 naddy 1937: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
1.23 louis 1938:
1.69 deraadt 1939: <h2>March, 1999</h2>
1940:
1.113 naddy 1941: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 1942: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.113 naddy 1943: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 1944:
1945: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
1946: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
1.113 naddy 1947: <p>
1.2 deraadt 1948:
1.113 naddy 1949: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1950: <a href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
1.57 louis 1951: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
1.113 naddy 1952: </strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1953:
1954: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
1955: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
1.185 jufi 1956: crucial to popularizing an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
1.113 naddy 1957: site.<p>
1.57 louis 1958:
1.69 deraadt 1959: <h2>February, 1999</h2>
1960:
1.113 naddy 1961: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 1962: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
1963: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.113 naddy 1964: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 1965:
1966: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
1967: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
1968: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
1969: over to OpenBSD.
1.113 naddy 1970: <p>
1.15 louis 1971:
1.113 naddy 1972: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 1973: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
1974: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.113 naddy 1975: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 1976:
1977: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
1978: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
1979: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
1980: columns."
1.113 naddy 1981: <p>
1.1 deraadt 1982:
1.69 deraadt 1983: <h2>January, 1999</h2>
1984:
1.113 naddy 1985: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 1986: <a href="http://www.planetit.com/techcenters/docs/linux/technology/PIT19990701S0039/">Open-Source
1.58 louis 1987: Software: Power to the People</a>, Data Communications, January 4, 1999
1.113 naddy 1988: </strong></font><br>
1.58 louis 1989:
1990: Columnist Lee Bruno marvels that free software is serving alongside name-brand
1.113 naddy 1991: software. Page three mentions OpenBSD in the roundup.<p>
1.58 louis 1992:
1.113 naddy 1993: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.111 jufi 1994: <a href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
1.113 naddy 1995: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
1.57 louis 1996:
1997: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
1998: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
1.113 naddy 1999: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
1.57 louis 2000:
1.69 deraadt 2001: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2002:
1.113 naddy 2003: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 2004: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 2005: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.113 naddy 2006: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 2007:
2008: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
2009: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
2010: Implementation, including a brief interview with
2011: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.113 naddy 2012: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2013:
1.69 deraadt 2014: <h2>August, 1998</h2>
2015:
1.113 naddy 2016: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2017: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.113 naddy 2018: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2019:
1.69 deraadt 2020: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
2021: OpenBSD is.
1.113 naddy 2022: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2023:
1.69 deraadt 2024: <h2>July, 1998</h2>
1.1 deraadt 2025:
1.113 naddy 2026: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2027: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
2028: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.113 naddy 2029: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2030:
2031: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
2032: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
1.113 naddy 2033: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2034:
1.113 naddy 2035: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
2036: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 2037: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
2038: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.113 naddy 2039: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2040:
1.69 deraadt 2041: <h2>June, 1998</h2>
2042:
1.113 naddy 2043: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2044: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.113 naddy 2045: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
2046: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
1.69 deraadt 2047: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.113 naddy 2048: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.69 deraadt 2049:
2050: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
2051: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
2052: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
1.113 naddy 2053: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
1.69 deraadt 2054: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.113 naddy 2055: <p>
1.69 deraadt 2056:
2057: <h2>May, 1998</h2>
2058:
1.113 naddy 2059: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.69 deraadt 2060: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.113 naddy 2061: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 2062:
1.69 deraadt 2063: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
2064: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
1.113 naddy 2065: <p>
1.112 naddy 2066:
1.113 naddy 2067: </dl>
2068: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2069:
1.113 naddy 2070: <hr>
2071: <a name=se></a>
2072: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 2073:
1.200 niklas 2074: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2075:
2076: <dl>
2077: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2078: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010613-CS3">
2079: Computer Sweden</a>, June 13, 2001</strong></font><br>
2080:
2081: Picked up on OpenBSD 2.9 press release.
2082: <p>
2083:
2084: </dl>
2085:
2086: <h2>May, 2001</h2>
2087:
2088: <dl>
2089: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2090: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010531-cs14">
2091: Computer Sweden</a>, May 31, 2001</strong></font><br>
2092:
2093: A report on the IPFilter removal from OpenBSD.
2094: <p>
2095:
2096: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2097: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010503-cs7">
2098: Computer Sweden</a>, May 03, 2001</strong></font><br>
2099:
2100: A report on FreeBSD really, but with an explicit statement of OpenBSD
2101: being best of brand when it comes to security.
2102: <p>
2103:
2104: </dl>
2105:
2106: <h2>April, 2001</h2>
2107:
2108: <dl>
2109: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2110: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.asp?id=010420-cs6">
2111: Computer Sweden</a>, April 20, 2001</strong></font><br>
2112:
2113: A statement that Cygate's Service Protector product is based on OpenBSD.
2114: <p>
2115:
2116: </dl>
2117:
1.102 niklas 2118: <h2>June, 2000</h2>
2119:
1.113 naddy 2120: <dl>
2121: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.103 niklas 2122: <a href="reprints/openbsd-hwcrypto.html">
1.113 naddy 2123: Säkerhet & Sekretess</a>, No 4, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.102 niklas 2124:
2125: This article reports in a positive tone on OpenBSD's latest security feature,
2126: hardware-supported cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2127: <p>
1.102 niklas 2128:
1.113 naddy 2129: </dl>
1.102 niklas 2130:
1.84 niklas 2131: <h2>May, 2000</h2>
2132:
1.113 naddy 2133: <dl>
2134: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.84 niklas 2135: <a href="http://nyheter.idg.se/display.pl?ID=000502-CSD1">
1.113 naddy 2136: Computer Sweden</a>, May 2, 2000</strong></font><br>
1.84 niklas 2137:
2138: An article describing *BSD as the choice of the "very demanding".
1.85 louis 2139: OpenBSD is noted for its focus on security and cryptography.
1.113 naddy 2140: <p>
1.84 niklas 2141:
1.113 naddy 2142: </dl>
1.84 niklas 2143:
1.69 deraadt 2144: <h2>November, 1998</h2>
2145:
1.113 naddy 2146: <dl>
2147: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2148: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.113 naddy 2149: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2150:
2151: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
2152: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
2153: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
1.113 naddy 2154: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2155:
1.113 naddy 2156: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 2157: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 2158: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 2159: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.113 naddy 2160: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 2161:
1.20 louis 2162: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
2163: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 2164: explains the licensing issues and points to our
2165: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
1.113 naddy 2166: <p>
1.1 deraadt 2167:
1.113 naddy 2168: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 2169:
1.113 naddy 2170: <hr>
1.202 jufi 2171: <a name=fi></a>
2172: <h3><font color=#e00000>Finnish press coverage (in Finnish)</font></h3><p>
2173:
2174: <dl>
2175:
2176: <h2>June, 2001</h2>
2177:
2178: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2179: <a href="http://www.itviikko.fi/uutiset/uutinen.asp?UutisID=46057">ITviikko - uutinen</a>
2180: June 14, 2001 </strong></font><br>
2181:
2182: A short article about IPF threatening the OpenSource Principles of OpenBSD, and thus IPF
2183: will be removed from OpenBSD.
2184: </dl>
2185:
2186: <hr>
1.113 naddy 2187: <a name=jp></a>
1.202 jufi 2188:
1.113 naddy 2189: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
1.20 louis 2190:
1.113 naddy 2191: <dl>
1.20 louis 2192:
1.170 louis 2193: <h2>December, 2000</h2>
2194:
2195: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2196: <a href="http://www.zdnet.co.jp/macwire/0012/06/c_opinion.html">Opinion:
2197: why I use OpenBSD</a>, MacWIRE Online, ZDNet Japan, December 6, 2000
2198: </strong></font><br>
2199:
2200: Translation of Stephan Somogyi's opinion piece, explaining why he runs
2201: OpenBSD. Some might argue that his example security flaw,
2202: open spam relays, is really no big deal, but we think it raises an
2203: important point: if an OS or mail system ships with relaying open by default,
2204: what message does that send about that system's resistance to less trivial
2205: attacks. He also chides Intel and 3Com for not providing driver
2206: documentation to allow their IPSec networking cards to be used.
2207: <p>
2208:
1.69 deraadt 2209: <h2>September, 1999</h2>
2210:
1.113 naddy 2211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.135 ericj 2212: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/BSDmag/">BSD Magazine</a>,
1.20 louis 2213: Sept. 28, 1999
1.113 naddy 2214: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 2215:
2216: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
2217: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
2218: translating and reprinting articles from
2219: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
1.113 naddy 2220: <p>
1.112 naddy 2221:
1.113 naddy 2222: </dl>
1.20 louis 2223:
1.113 naddy 2224: <hr>
2225: <a name=de></a>
2226: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
2227: <dl>
1.50 louis 2228:
1.151 louis 2229: <h2>September, 2000</h2>
2230:
2231: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2232: Das BSD-Ports-Verzeichnis, FreeX Magazin, 4.Quartal 2000
2233: </strong></font><br>
2234:
2235: Jörg Braun surveys the <a href="ports.html">Ports</a> system that gives
2236: users easy access to hundreds of net freeware applications. The author covers
2237: the various <code>make</code> options and targets, and also notes OpenBSD's
2238: "fake" installation used to create easily distributable binary
2239: packages as an automatic by-product of building a port.
2240:
2241: <p>
2242:
1.72 louis 2243: <h2>February, 2000</h2>
2244:
1.113 naddy 2245: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.109 reinhard 2246: <a href="http://linux.kbst.bund.de/index.html">Open Source Software in der Bundesverwaltung</a>, Bundesministerium des Innern,
1.72 louis 2247: Februar 2000
1.113 naddy 2248: </strong></font><br>
1.72 louis 2249:
1.101 jufi 2250: A paper on open source software in the German federal government,
1.73 louis 2251: published by the Federal Ministry of the Interior. The paper, which
2252: gave reference to OpenBSD among many other OSes and applications, was
1.113 naddy 2253: posted then retracted on "orders from above" in the ministry.
1.101 jufi 2254: Giving way to
2255: <a href="http://www2.linuxtag.de/2000/deutsch/shownews.php3?id=0047">
2256: the pressure and protests</a> of the open source movement the ministry
2257: rerelased the document after cutting out some numbers.
2258: (the Microsoft Licence fees, btw.!)
1.113 naddy 2259: <p>
1.72 louis 2260:
1.69 deraadt 2261: <h2>December, 1999</h2>
2262:
1.113 naddy 2263: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.111 jufi 2264: <a href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
1.50 louis 2265: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.113 naddy 2266: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 2267:
2268: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
1.113 naddy 2269: <p>
2270: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2271:
1.50 louis 2272:
1.113 naddy 2273: <hr>
2274: <a name=ru></a>
2275: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
2276: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2277:
1.69 deraadt 2278: <h2>January, 2000</h2>
2279:
1.113 naddy 2280: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2281: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2282: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/1.17.2000">January 2000 issue</a>
1.113 naddy 2283: </strong></font><br>
1.62 form 2284:
2285: Interview with Theo de Raadt about history and feature of OpenBSD project.
1.113 naddy 2286: <p>
1.62 form 2287:
1.69 deraadt 2288: <h2>July, 1999</h2>
2289:
1.113 naddy 2290: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.98 deraadt 2291: Byte Magazine, Russia,
2292: <a href="http://byte.piter-press.ru/magazine/7-8.11-12.1999">July/August 1999 issue</a>.
1.113 naddy 2293: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 2294:
1.59 form 2295: A review of OpenBSD 2.5 and OpenBSD project goals.
1.113 naddy 2296: <p>
1.112 naddy 2297:
1.113 naddy 2298: </dl>
1.112 naddy 2299:
1.113 naddy 2300: <hr>
2301: <a name=pl></a>
2302: <h3><font color=#e00000>Poland press coverage (in Polish)</font></h3><p>
2303: <dl>
1.56 deraadt 2304:
1.113 naddy 2305: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.129 louis 2306: <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/">OpenBSD and Linux</a>, LinuxNews
2307: Radio, August 2, 2000
2308: </strong></font><br>
2309:
2310: Bartek Rozkrut (aka Madey), made a guest appearance on LinuxRadio, speaking
1.199 pvalchev 2311: about differences between OpenBSD and Linux. During the show, listeners were
1.129 louis 2312: able to comment and ask questions on IRCNET's #linuxnews channel. The main
2313: criticism was that OpenBSD doesn't support SMP and isn't available for the
2314: IA-64 platform. LinuxNEWS is the biggest polish Linux news service, covering
2315: the entire Linux scene in Poland.<br>
2316: <i>Here's the <a href="http://urtica.linuxnews.pl/radio/audycja7.mp3">MP3</a></i>.
2317: <p>
2318:
2319: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.89 louis 2320: <a href="http://www.linux.news.pl/openbsd.html">OpenBSD - ma same zalety?</a>,
2321: <i>OpenBSD - Nothing but advantages?</i>, LinuxNews Serwis Informacyjny,
2322: January 2000
1.113 naddy 2323: </strong></font><br>
1.89 louis 2324:
2325: Bartek Rozkrut combines an overview of OpenBSD with a review of how to
2326: download and install the system. He mentions Theo de Raadt's "craze"
2327: about security and how he frustrates Linux advocates on Bugtraq with
2328: mails like "the problem was fixed a year ago in OpenBSD".
2329: The author spends some time explaining the disklabel partitioning scheme and
2330: reassuring would-be users that the no-frills installation script actually
1.113 naddy 2331: works even though it doesn't have a fancy point & click interface. He even
2332: gives typical download times from the various national ISPs.<br>
1.89 louis 2333: <i>Thanks to Vadim Vygonets, Wojciech Scigala and Tenyen for their help
2334: with the translation. For the full text, see the
2335: <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/mail.html">advocacy@openbsd.org
2336: mail archives</a>. Interpretation errors are mine --louis</i>
1.113 naddy 2337: <p>
2338: </dl>
1.56 deraadt 2339:
1.113 naddy 2340: <hr>
1.216 horacio 2341: <a name=es></a>
2342: <h3><font color=#e00000>Spanish press coverage (in Spanish)</font></h3><p>
2343: <dl>
2344:
2345: <h2>August, 2001</h2>
2346:
2347: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
2348: <a href="http://www.ciberpais.elpais.es/d/20010816/cibersoc/soc1.htm">HAL 2001 coverage</a>,
2349: Ciberpaís (El País), August 16, 2001
2350: </strong></font><br>
2351:
2352: The online edition of this major Spanish newspaper offers a
1.217 jufi 2353: short coverage of <a href="http://www.hal2001.org">HAL
1.216 horacio 2354: 2001</a>. The author pays attention to the stickers on the
2355: laptops and t-shirts on people, which appeared to him like
2356: <em>"a medieval tournament where the most powerful ones
2357: showed their war banners: <strong>OpenBSD</strong>, CCC,
2358: Cypherpunks, 2600, Indymedia..."</em>
2359: <p>
2360: </dl>
2361:
2362:
2363: <hr>
2364: <a href="index.html"><img height=24 width=24 src=back.gif border=0 alt=OpenBSD></a>
1.113 naddy 2365: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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