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OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
News OpenBSD developers have admitted that the organisation is running at a loss and want to increase annual income to continue funding the development of the project's open source operating system. OpenBSD for the past two years has turned a loss of...
[March 23, 2006, 10:10]
OpenBSD update improves hardware support
News The OpenBSD project has released version 4.4 of the popular descendant of the Unix-like Berkeley Software Distribution, the project's 25th release, featuring support for new hardware platforms, improved hardware support, upgrade process changes...
[November 4, 2008, 12:46]
OpenBSD 4.3 released
News The OpenBSD project has released version 4.3 of the popular descendant of Berkeley Software Distribution, featuring a large number of new drivers, software packages and bug fixes. OpenBSD has a focus on security and the project claims to have had...
[May 6, 2008, 13:13]
OpenBSD 3.9 released
News The OpenBSD project on Monday released version 3.9 of its open source operating system, which offers improvements including a new sensor framework and better buffer overflow protection. The sensor framework will allow system administrators to...
[May 3, 2006, 11:20]
OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework
News Open BSD 3.9 will include a new sensor framework to allow system administrators to monitor the environmental conditions of servers running OpenBSD. OpenBSD 3.9, which is scheduled for release on 1 May, includes support for the sensors and the...
[March 24, 2006, 8:30]
OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support
News The latest version of the Unix-like operating system OpenBSD, which was released on Tuesday, offers improved hardware support and RAID management capabilities. Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, said the latest release...
[November 1, 2005, 16:00]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
Talkback OpenBSD head de Raadt refuses to restrict code, so, fat chance of a future version being restricted.
[March 23, 2006, 17:27]
OpenBSD 3.6 tackles SMP
News The developers behind OpenBSD, the secure Unix-like operating system, are due to release version 3.6 on 1 November, which for the first time includes symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support. Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD...
[October 29, 2004, 12:24]
OpenBSD releases version 3.3
News The latest version of the popular OpenBSD operating system was released today, despite the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) pulling its funding to the group last month. In a message posted to an OpenBSD list, the developers of...
[May 1, 2003, 11:25]
Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?
News Tackling one of the most commonly reported causes of vulnerabilities, the OpenBSD project recently announced that a major effort has been put into place to eliminate buffer overrun vulnerabilities in its popular open source operating system.
[April 28, 2003, 7:54]
A Study of Initialization in Linux and OpenBSD
White Papers Specifically, the ways in which the OpenBSD and Linux operating systems handle initialization are dissected. The code that initializes a system can be notoriously difficult to understand. In secure systems, initialization is critical for...
[April 3, 2007, 1:00]
OpenBSD 3.6 tackles SMP
Talkback The gentleman's name is "de Raadt" not "Raadt" as you have done.
[November 1, 2004, 19:29]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
Talkback Opensource free distribution. Close the ftp mirror and develop paying distribution channels. Opensource projects have used the "free as in free beer" weapon to get exposure. At some point, the door has got to be closed.
[March 23, 2006, 11:09]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
Talkback One thing that I believe is missing from this article is a list of all companies that adopt the code from BSD, change it a little so other people can not interact with it, and then lock it up, so the can keep their monopolies or ability to...
[March 25, 2006, 17:28]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
Talkback "Opensource free distribution. Close the ftp mirror and develop paying distribution channels. You do realize that *anyone* is free to legally distrubute these products by any method, based on the currently available source?
[March 23, 2006, 12:18]
Torvalds attacks IT industry 'security circus'
News Linux creator Linus Torvalds has labelled makers of the OpenBSD operating system a "bunch of masturbating monkeys", as part of a wider critique of what he said was self-centred behaviour in the IT security industry.
[July 17, 2008, 13:53]
Software tweak may make operating systems safer
News The OpenBSD project hopes new changes to its latest release will eliminate "buffer overflows", a software issue that has been plaguing security experts for more than three decades. The OpenBSD team hardened the operating system to this type of...
[April 14, 2003, 8:43]
Open-source clan clashes with Sun
News A leading OpenBSD programmer has accused Sun Microsystems of hindering development of the open-source software for its newer computers, causing Sun to scramble to cooperate with the project in response.
[December 4, 2002, 13:44]
Why choose open source?
Talkback compare microsoft to openbsd and tell us then.performance ? check bugtraq for security holes between microsoft crap os and openbsd.if you dont see the truth you are blind to it on purpose. proprietary software more secure than open source ?
[June 15, 2004, 1:00]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
News The founder of the OpenBSD operating system has criticised the quality of Linux software claiming that it is full of code hacks, according to reports. Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the open source operating system OpenBSD, said...
[June 17, 2005, 13:00]
