Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
Talkback Don't hold Theo de Raadt "guilty".this is his professional opinion. While I'm sure Theo de Raadt was setup to sound "bad" I don't think his comments are out of line. Ask a developer a directed question about their opinion and you'd expect and...
[June 20, 2005, 20:48]
Open-source clan clashes with Sun
News OpenBSD project leader Theo de Raadt said he's been trying for a year to obtain low-level details from Sun about its UltraSparc III chip. De Raadt has a history of not mincing words or shunning controversy.
[December 4, 2002, 13:44]
Can OpenBSD really eliminate buffer over-runs?
News As reported by ZDNet, project leader project leader Theo de Raadt told a Canadian IT security conference that the OpenBSD project had specifically hardened OpenBSD to improve resistance to buffer overflow attacks.
[April 28, 2003, 7:54]
OpenSSH patches second specialised flaw
News It is unexploitable in the default configuration," said Theo de Raadt, a cofounder of the OpenSSH project. It takes a regular bug that could be escalated (by an attack) and protects you from it," de Raadt said.
[September 24, 2003, 15:25]
Putting too much trust in open source?
News I see a lot of bad software being done," said Theo de Raadt, founder and project leader for the open-source Unix variant OpenBSD. De Raadt led a team of OpenBSD developers on just such a review, cleaning up the source code for the Unix-like...
[March 21, 2002, 6:31]
Paying for free software may be the bargain of a lifetime
Leader "A culture of entitlement is starting to damage the open source community," Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the OpenBSD open source operating system, declared this week. That's basically unfair, says de Raadt.
[March 24, 2006, 13:55]
OpenBSD 3.8 improves hardware support
News Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, said the latest release includes enhancements in various subsystems: Version 3.8 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system," said de Raadt...
[November 1, 2005, 16:00]
Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux
News Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of the open source operating system OpenBSD, said Linux developers should work to improve the quality of the code, according to an interview in Forbes . It's terrible," De Raadt reportedly said.
[June 17, 2005, 13:00]
Software tweak may make operating systems safer
News Theo de Raadt, the project leader for the group, believes that the group's latest improvements to the Unix variant, due to be released on 1 May, will make causing a buffer overflow extremely difficult, if not impossible.
[April 14, 2003, 8:43]
Vulnerable OpenSSH
News However, a minor flame war broke out recently when the lead developer for OpenSSH, Theo de Raadt, posted a warning that there were vulnerabilities in OpenSSH versions prior to 3.3. The flames occurred because de Raadt published his advice but didn...
[July 9, 2002, 9:42]
OpenBSD 3.9 released
News The sensor framework will allow system administrators to monitor the environmental conditions of servers running the OS, Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, told ZDNet UK in an interview.
[May 3, 2006, 11:20]
OpenBSD founder makes funding plea
News Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, confirmed the loss figures to ZDNet UK and said the project currently has an income of around $100,000 (£60,000), half of which comes from donations, with the other half coming from product...
[March 23, 2006, 10:10]
OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework
News OpenBSD 3.9, which is scheduled for release on 1 May, includes support for the sensors and the sensor management tools used on a number of architectures, Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, told ZDNet UK earlier this week.
[March 24, 2006, 8:30]
OpenBSD 4.3 released
News This is our twenty-third release on CD-ROM, and twenty-fourth via FTP," said project leader Theo de Raadt, in a statement. The song refers to a dispute that erupted in December 2007 between Free Software Foundation head Richard Stallman and de Raadt.
[May 6, 2008, 13:13]
OpenBSD releases version 3.3
News The OpenBSD project leader, Theo de Raadt, announced the planned inclusion of the stack protection technology aimed at mitigating buffer overflow vulnerabilities -- the most ubiquitous type of security glitch -- at the RSA security conference in...
[May 1, 2003, 11:25]
Intel promises more speedy Linux releases
News Theo de Raadt, head of another open-source operating system, OpenBSD, steers people away from Intel and toward the Prism wireless networking chips from GlobespanVirata. Everyone in the open-source community is buying Prism-chip-based (wireless...
[February 19, 2004, 14:49]
OpenBSD 3.6 tackles SMP
News Theo de Raadt, the founder and lead developer of OpenBSD, told ZDNet UK that the main features in OpenBSD 3.6 are SMP support for Intel's i386 architecture and AMD's 64-bit processor, as well as new exploit mitigation features, and additional...
[October 29, 2004, 12:24]
Researcher to demo Intel chip attack
News Last June, following the release of workarounds for Intel Core 2 bugs by Microsoft and others, OpenBSD founder Theo de Raadt said the processors were "buggy as hell". Like Kaspersky, de Raadt argued that the workarounds provided by Intel are...
[July 16, 2008, 11:31]
OpenBSD update improves hardware support
News This is our 24th release on CD-ROM and 25th via FTP," said project leader Theo de Raadt, in a statement. The OpenBSD project has released version 4.4 of the popular descendant of the Unix-like Berkeley Software Distribution, the project's 25th...
[November 4, 2008, 12:46]
