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16: <h2>Media Coverage.</h2>
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1.3 deraadt 23: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
24: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a></strong></font>,
1.4 deraadt 25: National Post, May 25, 1999</a><p>
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27: Newspaper article about OpenBSD.
28: <p>
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30: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 31: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
32: Why to BSD in a Linux world.</a></strong></font>, March, 1999<p>
33:
34: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
35: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
36: <p>
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38: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 39: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/products/nfr/testing/">
40: NFR Performance Testing</a> report, written by
41: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
42:
43: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
44: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
45: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
46: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
47: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
48: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
49: <p>
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52: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
53: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
54: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
55:
56: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
57: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
58: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
59: columns."
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63: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
64: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
65: </strong></font><p>
66:
67: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
68: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
69: Implementation, including a brief interview with
70: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
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74: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
75: Wired Magazine, May 1, 1998, Usenix coverage.</a></strong></font><p>
76:
77: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
78: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
79: <p>
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82: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
83: Wired Magazine, Aug 11, 1997, Beyond HOPE coverage.</a></strong></font><p>
84:
85: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
86: OpenBSD is.
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89: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
90: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ! ian 91: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
! 92: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
! 93: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
! 94: SunExpert Magazine), June 1998, page 81.</a></strong></font><p>
! 95:
! 96: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
! 97: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
! 98: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
! 99: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
! 100: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 101: <p>
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104: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
105: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
106: July, 1998.</strong></font><p>
107:
108: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
109: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
110: <p>
111:
112: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
113: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
114: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a cheezy picture
115: of project founder Theo de Raadt (watch those wired people do
116: photoshop jobs!).
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120:
121: <h4>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</h4>
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124: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
125: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
126: Datateknik</a> no 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>
127:
128: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
129: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
130: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
131: <p>
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134: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
135: Datateknik</a> no 13, 1998 and
136: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
137: Datateknik</a> no 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>
138:
139: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The 1st
140: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the 2nd which
141: explains the licensing issues and points to our
142: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
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