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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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1.24 ! deraadt 20: <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.
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! 23: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
! 24: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
! 25: because security is a focus on the project".<p>
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1.19 louis 29: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999.
30: </strong></font><p>
31:
32: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
33: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
34: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
35: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
36: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
37: operating system in the world."<p>
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1.16 louis 41: <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml">Even better than Linux</a>, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999.
42: </strong></font><p>
43:
44: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
45: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
46: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
47: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not).<p>
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1.14 louis 51: <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>,
52: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
53:
54: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
55: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
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1.21 louis 59: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
60: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999.
61: </strong></font><p>
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1.23 louis 63: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
64: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
65: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
66: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
67: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 68: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
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1.17 deraadt 71: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 72: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
73: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999.</strong></font><p>
74:
75: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
76: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
77: of OpenBSD.<p>
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1.8 deraadt 81: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 82: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
83: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 84:
85: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
86: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 87: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
88: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
89: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
90: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
91: way down the page).
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1.3 deraadt 95: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 96: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
97: National Post, May 25, 1999.</strong></font><p>
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1.20 louis 99: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
100: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
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1.6 deraadt 104: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 105: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 106:
107: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
108: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
109: available."
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1.23 louis 113: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
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115: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
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118: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
119: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
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121: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
122: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
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1.2 deraadt 125: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.10 deraadt 126: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 127:
128: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
129: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
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1.11 ericj 134: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 135: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
136: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 137:
138: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
139: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
140: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
141: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
142: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
143: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
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1.15 louis 147: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
148: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
149: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
150:
151: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
152: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
153: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
154: over to OpenBSD.
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1.1 deraadt 158: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
159: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
160: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
161:
162: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
163: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
164: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
165: columns."
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1.2 deraadt 168: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
169: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
170: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
171: </strong></font><p>
172:
173: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
174: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
175: Implementation, including a brief interview with
176: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
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180: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 181: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 182:
183: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
184: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
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188: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.10 deraadt 189: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 190:
191: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
192: OpenBSD is.
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196: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 197: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
198: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
199: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.10 deraadt 200: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81.</strong></font><p>
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202: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
203: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
204: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
205: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
206: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 207: <p>
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210: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
211: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
212: July, 1998.</strong></font><p>
213:
214: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
215: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
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219: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 220: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
221: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
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1.18 deraadt 227: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</font></h3><p>
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231: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.10 deraadt 232: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 233:
234: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
235: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
236: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
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240: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 241: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 242: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 243: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>
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1.20 louis 245: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
246: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 247: explains the licensing issues and points to our
248: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
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1.20 louis 253: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
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258: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
259: Sept. 28, 1999
260: </strong></font><p>
261:
262: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
263: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
264: translating and reprinting articles from
265: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
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