English press coverage

The existence of OpenSSH-1.0 has been confirmed, Linux Weekly News, October 14, 1999

Linux Weekly News was the first non-BSD news agency to report the existence of OpenSSH, which will ship with OpenBSD 2.6.

Easing on Software Exports Has Limits, New York Times, October 11, 1999

Peter Wayner takes a closer look at some consequences of the US government's restrictions on the export of strong cryptographic software, and finds no small amount of irony. OpenBSD is prominently featured, along with a picture of Theo de Raadt brandishing CD-ROMs. (No charge registration required to read the NY Times on the web).

NSTI announces commercial support services for OpenBSD, Yahoo News, Oct. 6, 1999

Network Security Technologies press release on the PR Newswire. NSTI already uses OpenBSD in their Network Ops Center.

I've been hacked! How OpenBSD saved our project., Daemon News, October 1999

Overworked system administrator John Horn tells us about his adventures with a publicly-accessible Lynx server.

Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security, Calgary Herald, Sept. 30, 1999

Technology reporter Matthew McClearn interviewed system administrators and security specialists in Calgary and Edmonton who choose OpenBSD for its stability and proactive security audit. He also gives some project history.

Small town in Kentucky has Internet connectivity unlike the rest of America, MSNBC, Sept. 29, 1999

Jethro reports on the mailing lists that MSNBC aired a segment about a small town in Kentucky with high-speed Internet connectivity. During an interview with the town's teenage security guru, you could read the prompt on his terminal:

Connected to spanweb.glasgow-ky.com.
Escape character is '^]'.

OpenBSD/mac68k (spanweb.glasgow-ky.com) (ttyp0)


Hack this! Microsoft and its critics dispute software-security issues, but users make the final call, Infoworld, Sept. 27, 1999

Microsoft: Bad security, or bad press?, CNN, Sept. 28, 1999

A scathing look at the Microsoft "Insecure by Default" scheme quotes the CDC as saying that "The most secure platform 'out of the box' is OpenBSD, because security is a focus on the project". Contrast the Microsoft scheme with ours.

Open source has roots in the Net, USA Today, Sept. 20, 1999

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."

Even better than Linux, Boston Globe, Sept 16, 1999

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).

Microsoft, Linux to become duopoly?, ComputerWorld Australia, Sept 8, 1999.

Lead developer Theo de Raadt was a keynote speaker at the Australian Unix User Group (AUUG) meeting in Melbourne.

Maintaining Patch Levels with Open Source BSDs, SysAdmin feature article, Sept. 1999

Michael Lucas explains the broad lines of the BSD development model and how to keep *BSD systems up-to-date with CVS. The author takes most of the examples from FreeBSD, but he takes the time to explain differences between the three systems. (Most of this is technology was originally invented by the earliest OpenBSD developers, as described in a paper presented at Usenix).

A Secure and Open Society, ComputerWorld Canada, Aug 27, 1999

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.

1999's Technically Excellent Canadians, COMPUTERMAGS.COM, Aug 10, 1999

"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).

Operating system designed to foil hackers, National Post, May 25, 1999

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.

The Net's stealth operating system, MSNBC, July 22, 1999

"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."

IPsec Tech Tutorial, Data Communications, June 1999

"IPsec may be an open standard, but that's no guarantee that different vendors' gear will work together. To assess interoperability, we put an even dozen products through their paces." OpenBSD 2.4 and commercial IPsec implementations were tested by an independent lab for interoperability and ease in setting up tunneling gateways.

In Search of OpenBSD, DaemonNews, May 1999

Ejovi Nuwere in Japan: three days, three locations, one operating system.

Safe and friendly read-only chroot jails for FTP and WWW, DaemonNews, May 1999

"Ruffy" explains how to set up safe and friendly read-only FTP and WWW services with OpenBSD's ftpd as an example.

Why to BSD in a Linux world, March, 1999

Description of the OpenBSD development process, and arguments as to why Linux probably cannot achieve the same level of security audit.

NFR Performance Testing, report written by Anzen. February, 1999

This report compares the network monitoring performance of the NFR (Network Flight Recorder) 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.

DaemonNews: Serving NT filesystems from an OpenBSD server February, 1999

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.

Security Watch, end of year Golden Guardian awards. February, 1999

"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."

OpenBSD and IPSec, leading the pack, November, 1998

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.

Usenix coverage, Wired Magazine, May 1, 1998

Mention of OpenBSD with regards to our involvement in the Freenix track held at Usenix in New Orleans.

WebServer Online, reprinted in Server/Workstation Expert (formerly SunExpert Magazine), June 1998, page 81

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™ and the BSD Daemon, which the WebServer version in HTML does not).

Security Watch: Monthly Editorial. July, 1998

Points at our security page calling it "OpenBSD's mantra".

Wired Magazine, June 1998, page 96 (paper edition only)

A half-page description of what OpenBSD is, with a strange picture of project founder Theo de Raadt (Wired loves Photoshop).

Beyond HOPE coverage, Wired Magazine, Aug 11, 1997

Completely bogus (but quite amusing) description of what OpenBSD is.

Swedish press coverage (in swedish)

Datateknik, Nov 20, 1998.

An article on the swedish IPSec interop event mentions OpenBSD as one of the successful participants, and has a mini-interview with OpenBSD developer Niklas Hallqvist.

Datateknik, Nov 13, 1998 and Datateknik, Nov 14, 1998.

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 copyright policy page.

Japan press coverage (in Japanese)

BSD Magazine, Sept. 28, 1999

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 Daemon News, the BSD ezine.