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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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1.28 ! 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.<br>
! 21: <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.
1.24 deraadt 22: </strong></font><p>
23:
24: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
25: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 26: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 27: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
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1.19 louis 30: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999.
31: </strong></font><p>
32:
33: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
34: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
35: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
36: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
37: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
38: operating system in the world."<p>
39: <p>
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1.16 louis 42: <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml">Even better than Linux</a>, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999.
43: </strong></font><p>
44:
45: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
46: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
47: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
48: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not).<p>
49: <p>
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1.14 louis 52: <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>,
53: ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>
54:
55: Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User
56: Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
57: <p>
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1.21 louis 60: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
61: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999.
62: </strong></font><p>
63:
1.23 louis 64: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
65: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
66: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
67: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
68: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 69: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
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1.17 deraadt 72: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 73: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
74: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999.</strong></font><p>
75:
76: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
77: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
78: of OpenBSD.<p>
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1.8 deraadt 82: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 83: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
84: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.8 deraadt 85:
86: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
87: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 88: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
89: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
90: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
91: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
92: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 93: <p>
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1.3 deraadt 96: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 97: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
98: National Post, May 25, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.3 deraadt 99:
1.20 louis 100: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
101: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
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1.6 deraadt 105: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.20 louis 106: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>
1.6 deraadt 107:
108: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
109: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
110: available."
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1.23 louis 114: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
115:
116: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
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119: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
120: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><p>
121:
122: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
123: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
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1.2 deraadt 126: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.10 deraadt 127: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.2 deraadt 128:
129: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
130: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
131: <p>
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1.11 ericj 135: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 136: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
137: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 138:
139: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
140: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
141: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
142: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
143: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
144: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
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1.15 louis 148: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
149: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
150: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
151:
152: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
153: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
154: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
155: over to OpenBSD.
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1.1 deraadt 159: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
160: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
161: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
162:
163: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
164: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
165: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
166: columns."
167: <p>
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1.2 deraadt 169: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
170: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
171: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
172: </strong></font><p>
173:
174: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
175: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
176: Implementation, including a brief interview with
177: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 178: <p>
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181: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.10 deraadt 182: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 183:
184: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
185: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
186: <p>
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189: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.10 deraadt 190: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 191:
192: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
193: OpenBSD is.
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197: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 198: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
199: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
200: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.10 deraadt 201: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81.</strong></font><p>
1.5 ian 202:
203: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
204: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
205: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
206: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
207: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 208: <p>
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211: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
212: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
213: July, 1998.</strong></font><p>
214:
215: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
216: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
217: <p>
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219: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
220: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
1.18 deraadt 221: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
222: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
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1.18 deraadt 229: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</font></h3><p>
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1.1 deraadt 232: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
233: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.10 deraadt 234: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>
1.1 deraadt 235:
236: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
237: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
238: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
239: <p>
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241: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
242: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 243: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 244: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 245: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>
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1.20 louis 247: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
248: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 249: explains the licensing issues and points to our
250: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
251: <p>
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1.27 deraadt 255: <hr>
1.20 louis 256: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
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261: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
262: Sept. 28, 1999
263: </strong></font><p>
264:
265: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
266: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
267: translating and reprinting articles from
268: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
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