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1.18 deraadt 14: <h2><font color=#e00000>Media Coverage</strong><hr></h2>
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1.18 deraadt 16: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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1.19 louis 20: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999.
21: </strong></font><p>
22:
23: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
24: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
25: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
26: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
27: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
28: operating system in the world."<p>
29: <p>
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31: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.16 louis 32: <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml">Even better than Linux</a>, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999.
33: </strong></font><p>
34:
35: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
36: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
37: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
38: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not).<p>
39: <p>
40:
1.1 deraadt 41: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.14 louis 42: <a href="http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww2.idg.com.au%2FCWT1997.nsf%2FHome%2Bpage%2F83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41%3FOpenDocument&return=%2fidg_frames%2fenglish%2ffeatures%2ehtml">Microsoft, Linux to become duopoly?</a>,
43: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
44:
45: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
46: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
47: <p>
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1.21 louis 50: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
51: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999.
52: </strong></font><p>
53:
1.23 ! louis 54: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
! 55: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
! 56: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
! 57: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
! 58: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 59: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
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1.17 deraadt 62: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 63: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
64: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999.</strong></font><p>
65:
66: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
67: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
68: of OpenBSD.<p>
69: <p>
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1.8 deraadt 72: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 73: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
74: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 75:
76: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
77: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 78: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
79: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
80: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
81: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
82: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 83: <p>
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1.3 deraadt 86: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 87: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
88: National Post, May 25, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 89:
1.20 louis 90: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
91: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 92: <p>
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1.6 deraadt 95: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 96: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 97:
98: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
99: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
100: available."
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1.23 ! louis 104: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
! 105:
! 106: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
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! 108: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 109: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
! 110: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
! 111:
! 112: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
! 113: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
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! 115: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 116: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.10 deraadt 117: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 118:
119: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
120: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
121: <p>
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1.11 ericj 125: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 126: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
127: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 128:
129: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
130: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
131: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
132: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
133: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
134: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
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1.15 louis 138: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
139: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
140: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
141:
142: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
143: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
144: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
145: over to OpenBSD.
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1.1 deraadt 149: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
150: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
151: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
152:
153: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
154: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
155: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
156: columns."
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1.2 deraadt 159: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
160: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
161: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
162: </strong></font><p>
163:
164: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
165: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
166: Implementation, including a brief interview with
167: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 168: <p>
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171: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 172: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 173:
174: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
175: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
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179: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.10 deraadt 180: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 181:
182: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
183: OpenBSD is.
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186: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
187: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 188: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
189: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
190: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.10 deraadt 191: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81.</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 192:
193: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
194: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
195: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
196: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
197: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 198: <p>
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201: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
202: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
203: July, 1998.</strong></font><p>
204:
205: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
206: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
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209: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
210: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 211: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
212: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
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1.18 deraadt 218: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</font></h3><p>
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1.1 deraadt 221: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
222: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.10 deraadt 223: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 224:
225: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
226: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
227: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
228: <p>
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231: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 232: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 233: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 234: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>
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1.20 louis 236: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
237: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 238: explains the licensing issues and points to our
239: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
240: <p>
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1.1 deraadt 243:
1.20 louis 244: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
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249: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
250: Sept. 28, 1999
251: </strong></font><p>
252:
253: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
254: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
255: translating and reprinting articles from
256: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
257: <p>
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