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<h2><font color=#e00000>Media Coverage</strong><hr></h2>

<h3><font color=#e00000>English press coverage</font></h3><p>
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctg183.htm">Open source has roots in the Net</a>, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999.
</strong></font><p>

Nice high profile mention of OpenBSD by Will Rodger: 
"Yet backers say the speed and transparency with which open source 
programmers compete to discover and then fix problems separates their
operations from traditional software shops. OpenBSD -- still another
open source operating system -- is often called the most secure 
operating system in the world."<p>
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/259/business/Even_better_than_Linux+.shtml">Even better than Linux</a>, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999.
</strong></font><p>

Technology writer Simson L. Garfinkel confesses he prefers the BSDs better
than Linux and explains why. He writes a nice paragraph or two about OpenBSD 
and its security and cryptography goals. However, reading this, you'd think 
all the developers were Canadian (hint: they're not).<p>
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<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>,
ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.</strong></font><p>

Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User 
Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.<p>
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.lti.on.ca/cw/archive/CW15-17/cw_wtemplate.cfm?filename=c1517n8.htm">
A Secure and Open Society</a>,
ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999.</strong></font><p>

The article starts off as a personal story about lead developer Theo de Raadt, 
but if you read carefully, it does explain a lot about the origins and goals 
of OpenBSD.<p>
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.computermags.com/CCP/Pub/Story/1,1080,715,00.html">
1999's Technically Excellent Canadians</a>,
COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999.</strong></font><p>

"CCW is very pleased to name our five Technically Excellent Canadians,
who are significantly impacting on technology both at home and
abroad. Thanks to our readers for your involvement and nominations." 
The publisher of Canadian Computer Wholesaler (August 1999) and 
The Computer Paper (September 1999) presented this award
to Theo de Raadt for his part in OpenBSD (the sub-article is half 
way down the page).
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/financialpost.asp?f=990525/2636405&s2=canadianbusiness">
Operating system designed to foil hackers</a>,
National Post, May 25, 1999.</strong></font><p>

The Post's technology reporter David Akin interviews Theo de Raadt for 
in a story that ran on the front page of the business section. 
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/292376.asp">
The Net's stealth operating system</a>, MSNBC, July 22, 1999</strong></font><p>

"The OpenBSD group, which did a line-by-line security audit of BSD
code, and now has what is widely regarded as the most secure OS
available."
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.computerbits.com/archive/19990300/bsd.htm">
Why to BSD in a Linux world</a>, March, 1999.</strong></font><p>

Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why
Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.
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<a href="http://www.anzen.com/research/research_perform.html">
NFR Performance Testing</a>, report written by
<a href="http://www.anzen.com">Anzen</a>. February, 1999.</strong></font><p>

This report compares the network monitoring performance of the
<a href="http://www.nfr.net">NFR (Network Flight Recorder)</a> package at
handling flat-out 100Mbit ethernet monitoring, running on OpenBSD, BSDI,
Linux, and Solaris.  OpenBSD comes out as a clear winner just for raw
performance; even before you consider the superior security of OpenBSD
which you probably would want for a network-monitoring station.
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199902/samba.html">
DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server</a> 
February, 1999.</strong></font><p>

A system administrator debunks the myth that you must use NT as a file server
when you run Windows clients. Squeezing performance out of vintage hardware and
adding in some scripts to automate the setup of new projects won management 
over to OpenBSD.
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayNew.pl?/security/990215sw.htm">
Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards.</a> 
February, 1999.</strong></font><p>

"Finally, we'd be remiss in ignoring OpenBSD in any discussion of top
open-source security products. It registered high in our e-mail
survey, and we promise to take a more active look at it in future
columns."
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<li><font color="#009000"><strong>
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/199811/security.html">
OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack</a>, November, 1998.
</strong></font><p>

A two-part article by Ejovi Nuwere focusing on OpenBSD's IPSec Development.
Part one is an introduction to OpenBSD's Photurisd and its current
Implementation, including a brief interview with
Photurisd creator Neils Provos.
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/business/story/12035.html">
Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, May 1, 1998</strong></font><p>

Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the
Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/5943.html">
Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine</a>, Aug 11, 1997.</strong></font><p>

Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what
OpenBSD is.
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://webserver.cpg.com/reviews/r1/3.4/index.html">
WebServer Online</A>, reprinted in
<A href="http://sw.expert.com/R/WS4.JUN.98.pdf">
Server/Workstation Expert (formerly
SunExpert Magazine)</a>, June 1998, page 81.</strong></font><p>

A glowing four-page description of OpenBSD emphasizing its use
as a server and an OS that ships with security in the box
(the SunExpert version is in PDF but includes their own
graphic - a cross between Superman&#153; and the BSD Daemon, which
the WebServer version in HTML does not).
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayArchive.pl?/98/28/o03-28.40d.htm">
Security Watch: Monthly Editorial.</a> 
July, 1998.</strong></font><p>

Points at our <a href="http://www.openbsd.org/security.html">security page</a>
calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".
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<li><font color=#009000><strong><a href="http://www.wired.com">
Wired Magazine</a>, June 1998, page 96. Paper edition only.</strong></font><p>
A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture
of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).
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<h3><font color=#e00000>Swedish press coverage (in swedish)</font></h3><p>

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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-20/28.html">
Datateknik</a>, Nov 20, 1998.</strong></font><p>

An article on the swedish <a href="events.html#ipsec98">IPSec interop</a> event
mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a
mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.
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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-13/1.html">
Datateknik</a>, Nov 13, 1998 and
<a href="http://www.datateknik.se/arkiv/98-14/1.html">
Datateknik</a>, Nov 14, 1998.</strong></font><p>

Two published letters talking about OpenBSD's role in MacOS X.  The first
one has some misconceptions which are corrected by the second which
explains the licensing issues and points to our
<a href="policy.html">copyright policy</a> page.
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<h3><font color=#e00000>Japan press coverage (in Japanese)</font></h3><p>

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<li><font color=#009000><strong>
<a href="http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/bsd/index.html">BSD Magazine</a>,
Sept. 28, 1999
</strong></font><p>

ASCII Corporation is launching a Japanese language magazine that covers the
freenix BSDs, BSD/OS and related subjects. The magazine will also be
translating and reprinting articles from
<a href="http://www.daemonnews.org/">Daemon News</a>, the BSD ezine.
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