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1.57 ! louis 14: <h2><font color=#e00000>Media Coverage</strong><hr></font></h2>
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1.18 deraadt 16: <h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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1.16 louis 18:
1.48 louis 19: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.53 louis 20: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/353999.asp?cp1=1">
21: Mudge, the halo and the 2.4 sticker</a>, MSNBC, January 6, 2000.
1.57 ! louis 22: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 23:
24: The beastie sticker from OpenBSD 2.4 was spotted on Mudge's laptop cover
25: in a file photo for this story about L0pht joining with corporate heavyweights.
26: <p>
27:
28: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.55 deraadt 29: <a href="http://www.northernjourney.com/opensource/linside/li006.html">Canadian open source projects</a>, The Computer Paper, January 2000
1.57 ! louis 30: </strong></font><br>
1.53 louis 31:
32: OpenBSD is featured in a year-end review of Canadian Open Source projects
33: in <a
34: href="http://www.canadacomputes.com/cc/section/pub/1,1100,33,00.html?pub=1&iss=52">The Computer Paper</a>.
35: Linux columnist Gene Wilburn gets it right. Unfortunately, the article isn't on
1.55 deraadt 36: the Computer Paper's site, but it is available at the author's site.
1.53 louis 37: <p>
38:
39: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.51 deraadt 40: "Info.sec.radio" radio show. 11:00AM, Monday, January 10, 2000<br>
1.52 deraadt 41: <A href="http://www.cjsw.com">CJSW 90.9 FM campus radio in Calgary</a> in
1.51 deraadt 42: association with <a href="http://www.securityfocus.com">SecurityFocus</a>
1.57 ! louis 43: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 44:
45: In the inaugural show of <strong>Info.sec.radio</strong>, Dean Turner of
46: Security Focus interviews Theo de Raadt about OpenBSD, security,
47: and cryptography.
48: <p>
49:
50: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.57 ! louis 51: <a
! 52: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/swol-01-supersys.html">A
! 53: report from LISA</a>, SunWorld, January 1999
! 54: </strong></font><br>
! 55:
! 56: Columnist Peter Galvin gives a recap of LISA '99, mentioning among others
! 57: Bob Beck's <a href="events.html#lisa99">paper</a> about securing public
! 58: access Ethernet jacks on a university campus.<p>
! 59:
! 60: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.54 deraadt 61: <A href="http://www.casselman.net/artlist/OpenBSD.htm">
1.51 deraadt 62: A Home-Grown Operating System?
63: </a>, Alberta Venture Magazine, January/February, 2000
1.57 ! louis 64: </strong></font><br>
1.51 deraadt 65:
66: Grace Casselman interviews Theo about the development process of OpenBSD.
67: <p>
68:
69: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.50 louis 70: <A href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/991108sw.htm">
1.48 louis 71: OpenBSD comes close to security nirvana with a system that is
72: 'secure by default'</a>, InfoWorld, November 8, 1999
1.57 ! louis 73: </strong></font><br>
1.48 louis 74:
75: Security Watch columnists Stuart McClure and Joel Scambray say good things
76: about OpenBSD's security stance. "As you've come to expect from us,
77: our faith in vendors' attention to security is waning, but OpenBSD
78: gives us hope. OpenBSD is a group that has done it
79: right -- or at least strives to".
80: <p>
81:
1.46 louis 82: <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 83: Slashdot, November 4, 1999
1.57 ! louis 84: </strong></font><br>
1.46 louis 85:
86: Mick Morgan, of the UK's Central Computer and Telecommunications Agency,
87: answers Slashdot readers and talks about the design of a high profile
88: web site like the Royal Family's. In hindsight, he would have chosen
89: OpenBSD for its security aspects.
90: <p>
91:
1.44 philen 92: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://securityportal.com/direct.cgi?/closet/closet19991027.html">OpenBSD - a secure alternative</a>,
93: Security Portal, October 27 1999
1.57 ! louis 94: </strong></font><br>
1.44 philen 95:
96: Kurt Seifried
97: (<a href="mailto:seifried@seifried.org">seifried@seifried.org</a>), security
98: analyst and author of the <i>Linux Administrators Security Guide</i>,
99: discusses setting up an OpenBSD firewall.
100: <p>
101:
1.41 louis 102: <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>,
103: Slashdot, October 22, 1999
1.57 ! louis 104: </strong></font><br>
1.41 louis 105:
106: In between cheeky and rude answers to slashdot reader questions, cDc'ers
107: mention OpenBSD's security model and code audit.<p>
108:
1.37 louis 109: <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>,
110: Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999
1.57 ! louis 111: </strong></font><br>
1.37 louis 112:
113: Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of
1.40 deraadt 114: <a href=crypto.html#ssh>OpenSSH</a>, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.<p>
1.37 louis 115:
1.36 louis 116: <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>,
117: New York Times, October 11, 1999
1.57 ! louis 118: </strong></font><br>
1.36 louis 119:
120: Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's
121: restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no
122: small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture
123: of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to
124: read the NY Times on the web).<p>
125:
126: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href=http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/991006/ny_ntwrk_s_2.html>NSTI announces commercial support services for OpenBSD</a>,
1.34 beck 127: Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999
1.57 ! louis 128: </strong></font><br>
1.34 beck 129:
1.36 louis 130: Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI
131: already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.<p>
1.34 beck 132:
1.38 louis 133: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 134: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199910/openbsd.html">I've been hacked!
135: How OpenBSD saved our project</a>, Daemon News, October 1999
1.57 ! louis 136: </strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 137:
138: Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with
139: a publicly-accessible Lynx server.<p>
140:
1.30 deraadt 141: <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 142: Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999
1.57 ! louis 143: </strong></font><br>
1.32 louis 144:
145: Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and
146: security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its
147: stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.<p>
1.30 deraadt 148:
1.29 louis 149: <li><strong>
150: Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of
1.38 louis 151: America<font color=#009000>, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999
1.57 ! louis 152: </strong></font><br>
1.29 louis 153:
154: Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small
155: town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview
1.57 ! louis 156: with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his
! 157: terminal:
1.29 louis 158: <blockquote>
159: <code>Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.<br>
160: Escape character is '^]'.<br>
161: <br>
162: OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)<br>
163: </code>
164: </blockquote>
165: <p>
166:
1.16 louis 167: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 168: <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>
169: <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
1.57 ! louis 170: </strong></font><br>
1.24 deraadt 171:
172: A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the
173: CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD,
1.26 deraadt 174: because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme
1.25 deraadt 175: with <a href=security.html#default>ours</a>.<p>
1.24 deraadt 176:
177: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.38 louis 178: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999
1.57 ! louis 179: </strong></font><br>
1.19 louis 180:
181: Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger:
182: "Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source
183: programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
184: operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
185: open source operating system -- is often called the most secure
1.57 ! louis 186: operating system in the world."
1.19 louis 187: <p>
188:
1.43 louis 189: <li><strong>
190: Even better than Linux, <a href="http://www.boston.com/globe/">Boston Globe</a><font color=#009000>, Sept 16, 1999
1.57 ! louis 191: </strong></font><br>
1.16 louis 192:
193: Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
194: than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD
195: and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think
1.57 ! louis 196: all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not). The article has moved
! 197: to the archives, free registration required.
1.16 louis 198: <p>
199:
1.1 deraadt 200: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.57 ! louis 201: <a
! 202: href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/Home+page/83CB1A288A3B3EB54A2567E5001FEF41?OpenDocument">Microsoft,
! 203: Linux to become duopoly?</a>, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.
! 204: </strong></font><br>
1.14 louis 205:
1.57 ! louis 206: Reporter Natasha David interviews lead developer Theo de Raadt, who notes that cross-UNIX
! 207: compatibility is losing ground in the rush for Linux applications. de Raadt
! 208: was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in
! 209: Melbourne.<p>
! 210:
! 211: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 212: <a
! 213: href="http://www.idg.net/idgns/1999/09/08/GNULaunchesFreeEncryptionTool.shtml">GNU
! 214: launches free encryption tool</a>, IDG News Service, September 08, 1999
! 215: </strong></font><br>
! 216:
! 217: <a href="http://www.gnupg.org/">GNU Privacy Guard</a> runs fine on OpenBSD.<p>
1.14 louis 218:
219: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.21 louis 220: <a href="http://www.samag.com/archive/0809/feature.shtml">Maintaining
1.38 louis 221: Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs</a>, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999
1.57 ! louis 222: </strong></font><br>
1.21 louis 223:
1.23 louis 224: Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and
225: how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the
226: examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences
227: between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally
228: invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a
1.22 deraadt 229: <a href=events.html#anoncvs_paper>paper presented at Usenix</a>).<p>
1.21 louis 230:
231: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.47 louis 232: <a href="http://www.opensourceit.com/tutorials/990901_openbsd.html">
233: My own private IRP</a>, open source IT tutorial, Sept. 1999
1.57 ! louis 234: </strong></font><br>
1.47 louis 235:
236: Sean Sosik-Hamor descibes how he built up his own Internet resource provider
237: (IRP) and web hosting business out of available hardware and freenix
238: software. He chose OpenBSD exclusively for his DMZ and describes the FTP
239: installation.
240: <p>
241:
242: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.57 ! louis 243: <a
! 244: href="http://www2.idg.com.au/CWT1997.nsf/cwtoday/C02D91FFCD8CD68A4A2567F3007A9A05?OpenDocument">India-based
! 245: Web site offers raft of free OSes</a>,
! 246: ComputerWorld Australia, September 1999</strong></font><br>
! 247:
! 248: OpenBSD is one of many free OSes offered at <a href="http://www.freeos.com/">FreeOS</a>,
! 249: an India-based alternative OS news and portal site.<p>
! 250:
! 251: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.17 deraadt 252: <a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
1.12 louis 253: A Secure and Open Society</a>,
1.57 ! louis 254: ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.12 louis 255:
256: The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt,
257: but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals
1.57 ! louis 258: of OpenBSD.
1.12 louis 259: <p>
260:
261: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.8 deraadt 262: <a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1.10 deraadt 263: 1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
1.57 ! louis 264: COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.8 deraadt 265:
266: "CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
267: who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
1.20 louis 268: abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations."
269: The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and
270: The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
271: to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half
272: way down the page).
1.8 deraadt 273: <p>
274:
275: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.3 deraadt 276: <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
1.10 deraadt 277: Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
1.57 ! louis 278: National Post, May 25, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.3 deraadt 279:
1.20 louis 280: The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for
281: in a story that ran on the front page of the business section.
1.3 deraadt 282: <p>
283:
284: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.6 deraadt 285: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
1.57 ! louis 286: The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.6 deraadt 287:
288: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
289: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
290: available."
291: <p>
292:
293: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.33 louis 294: <a href="http://www.data.com/issue/990607/ipsec.html">IPsec Tech Tutorial</a>,
1.57 ! louis 295: Data Communications, June 1999</strong></font><br>
1.33 louis 296:
297: "IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different
298: vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even
299: dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec
300: implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability
301: and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.
302: <p>
303:
304: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.57 ! louis 305: <a
! 306: href="http://www.sunworld.com/swol-06-1999/swol-06-usenix.html?IDG.net">A
! 307: glimpse at the USENIX Technical Conference</a>, SunWorld, June 1999
! 308: </strong></font><br>
! 309:
! 310: In a review of this year's event subtitled "USENIX
! 311: and Unix -- then and now", writer Vicki Brown contrasts the first
! 312: conference in 1979 to the recent one in Montery, California. Although it
! 313: only mentions OpenBSD in the links section below the article, it's still
! 314: an interesting read.
! 315: <p>
! 316:
! 317: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.39 louis 318: <a href="http://www.pioneerplanet.com/reprints/051799tech.htm">
319: OS Also-Rans: After Windows 98, Mac OS and Linux, what's left for your
320: Macintosh or Intel PC? Lots</a>, St.Paul-Minneapolis Pioneer-Planet, May 17 1999
1.57 ! louis 321: </strong></font><br>
1.39 louis 322:
323: Despite the terrible title, staff writer Julio Ojeda-Zapata gives fair
324: treatment to the alternatives.<p>
325:
326: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.57 ! louis 327: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/open-japan.html">In Search of OpenBSD</a>, DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 328:
329: Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.<p>
330:
331: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
332: <a href="">Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW</a>,
1.57 ! louis 333: DaemonNews, May 1999</strong></font><br>
1.23 louis 334:
335: "Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services
336: with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.<p>
337:
338: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.2 deraadt 339: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
1.57 ! louis 340: Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 341:
342: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
343: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
344: <p>
345:
1.57 ! louis 346: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
! 347: <a
! 348: href="http://archive.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/peer/990308pp.htm">Alternative
! 349: OSes face a Sisyphean struggle to get into the PC mainstream</a>, Infoworld, March 8, 1999
! 350: </strong></font><br>
! 351:
! 352: Guest columnist Brett Arquette points out that Linux isn't the only alternative
! 353: PC OS out there, then describes why hardware drivers and end user support is
! 354: crucial to popularising an OS. He mentions OpenBSD and adds a link to this
! 355: site.<p>
! 356:
1.7 deraadt 357: <a name=anzen1>
1.2 deraadt 358: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.11 ericj 359: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
1.20 louis 360: NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
1.57 ! louis 361: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 362:
363: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
364: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
365: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
366: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
367: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
368: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
369: <p>
370:
371: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.15 louis 372: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
373: DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a>
1.57 ! louis 374: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.15 louis 375:
376: A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
377: when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
378: adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management
379: over to OpenBSD.
380: <p>
381:
382: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
1.1 deraadt 383: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
384: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
1.57 ! louis 385: February, 1999</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 386:
387: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
388: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
389: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
390: columns."
391: <p>
392:
1.2 deraadt 393: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.57 ! louis 394: <a
! 395: href="http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-1999/swol-01-bsd_p.html">The
! 396: return of BSD</a>, SunWorld, January 1999</strong></font><br>
! 397:
! 398: BSD veteran Greg Lehey notes the strong loyalty of SunOS 4 users and surveys the
! 399: BSD-derived OSes available on SPARC and PC hardware. The article also comes with
! 400: a long list of useful links (some are stale).<p>
! 401:
! 402: <li><font color="#009000"><strong>
1.2 deraadt 403: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
1.38 louis 404: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998
1.57 ! louis 405: </strong></font><br>
1.2 deraadt 406:
407: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
408: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
409: Implementation, including a brief interview with
410: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
1.1 deraadt 411: <p>
412:
413: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
414: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
1.57 ! louis 415: Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 416:
417: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
418: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
419: <p>
420:
421: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
422: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 423: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
424: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
425: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
1.57 ! louis 426: SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81</strong></font><br>
1.5 ian 427:
428: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
429: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
430: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
431: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
432: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 433: <p>
434:
435: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
436: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
437: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
1.57 ! louis 438: July, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 439:
440: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
441: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
442: <p>
443:
444: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
1.57 ! louis 445: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)</strong></font><br>
1.18 deraadt 446: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
447: of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
1.1 deraadt 448: <p>
449:
1.38 louis 450: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
451: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
1.57 ! louis 452: Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997</strong></font><br>
1.38 louis 453:
454: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
455: OpenBSD is.
456: <p>
457:
1.17 deraadt 458: </dl>
459: <p>
1.1 deraadt 460:
1.27 deraadt 461: <hr>
1.45 philen 462: <h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in Swedish)</font></h3><p>
1.1 deraadt 463:
1.17 deraadt 464: <dl>
1.1 deraadt 465: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
466: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
1.57 ! louis 467: Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 468:
469: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
470: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
471: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
472: <p>
473:
474: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
475: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
1.10 deraadt 476: Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
1.1 deraadt 477: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
1.57 ! louis 478: Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998</strong></font><br>
1.1 deraadt 479:
1.20 louis 480: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The first
481: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
1.1 deraadt 482: explains the licensing issues and points to our
483: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
484: <p>
485:
1.17 deraadt 486: </dl>
1.1 deraadt 487:
1.27 deraadt 488: <hr>
1.20 louis 489: <h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>
490:
491: <dl>
492:
493: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
494: <a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
495: Sept. 28, 1999
1.57 ! louis 496: </strong></font><br>
1.20 louis 497:
498: ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
499: freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
500: translating and reprinting articles from
501: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
502: <p>
503:
504: </dl>
505:
1.50 louis 506: <hr>
507: <h3><font color=#e00000>Germany press coverage (in German)</font></h3><p>
508: <dl>
509:
510: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
511: <A href="http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/odi-02.12.99-000/">
512: OpenBSD 2.6 ist da</a>, heise online newsticker, December 2, 1999
1.57 ! louis 513: </strong></font><br>
1.50 louis 514:
515: Brief summary of the OpenBSD 2.6 press release.
516: <p>
517: </dl>
518:
1.20 louis 519:
1.1 deraadt 520: <hr>
1.56 deraadt 521: <h3><font color=#e00000>Russian press coverage (in Russian)</font></h3><p>
522: <dl>
523:
524: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
525: Byte Magazine, Russia,
526: November/December 1999 issue.
1.57 ! louis 527: </strong></font><br>
1.56 deraadt 528:
529: A review of OpenBSD 2.5.
530: <p>
531:
532: <p>
533: </dl>
534:
535: <hr>
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537: <a href=mailto:www@openbsd.org>www@openbsd.org</a>
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