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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>
1.6 deraadt 31: <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
32: The Net's stealth operating system.</a></strong></font>, July 22, 1999<p>
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34: "The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
35: code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
36: available."
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1.2 deraadt 40: <a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
41: Why to BSD in a Linux world.</a></strong></font>, March, 1999<p>
42:
43: Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
44: Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
45: <p>
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1.1 deraadt 49: <a href="http://www.anzen.com/products/nfr/testing/">
50: NFR Performance Testing</a> report, written by
51: <a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
52:
53: This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
54: <a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
55: handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
56: Linux, and Solaris. OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
57: performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
58: which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
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62: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
63: Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a>
64: February, 1999.</strong></font><p>
65:
66: "Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
67: open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
68: survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
69: columns."
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73: <a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
74: OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
75: </strong></font><p>
76:
77: A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
78: Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
79: Implementation, including a brief interview with
80: Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
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84: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
85: Wired Magazine, May 1, 1998, Usenix coverage.</a></strong></font><p>
86:
87: Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
88: Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
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92: <a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
93: Wired Magazine, Aug 11, 1997, Beyond HOPE coverage.</a></strong></font><p>
94:
95: Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
96: OpenBSD is.
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100: <a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
1.5 ian 101: WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
102: <A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
103: Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
104: SunExpert Magazine), June 1998, page 81.</a></strong></font><p>
105:
106: A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
107: as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
108: (the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
109: graphic - a cross between Superman™ and the BSD Daemon, which
110: the WebServer version in HTML does not).
1.1 deraadt 111: <p>
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114: <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
115: Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a>
116: July, 1998.</strong></font><p>
117:
118: Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
119: calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
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121:
122: <li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
123: Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
124: A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a cheezy picture
125: of project founder Theo de Raadt (watch those wired people do
126: photoshop jobs!).
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130:
131: <h4>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</h4>
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135: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
136: Datateknik</a> no 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>
137:
138: An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
139: mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
140: mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
141: <p>
142:
143: <li><font color=#009000><strong>
144: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
145: Datateknik</a> no 13, 1998 and
146: <a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
147: Datateknik</a> no 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>
148:
149: Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X. The 1st
150: one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the 2nd which
151: explains the licensing issues and points to our
152: <a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
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