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Theo De Raadt, founder of the security-minded OpenBSD operating system, has announced plans to launch a series of television commercials to battle software giants Microsoft and Apple.

"Theo de Raadt is the project leader for OpenBSD, a Unix-like operating system. We spoke with Theo about the upcoming release of OpenBSD, 3.9, the financial state of the project, and about companies that profit from free software without contributing back." Thread beginning with comment 109088 To view parent comment, click here .

Contributed by jason on Thu Apr 30 20:35:09 2009 from the check-your-sums dept. Bob Beck warns users about a site carrying unofficial 4.5 sets.

Richard Stallman sent a message to OpenBSD-Misc, explaining why he doesn't recommend OpenBSD .

Contributed by weerd on Wed Apr 8 07:10:29 2009 from the founding-funding-foundations dept.

"Even if you don't use OpenBSD, you're likely to be benefiting from it unknowingly.

Contributed by mtu on Tue Mar 10 21:31:34 2009 from the better-late-than-never dept.

As recently reported on OpenBSD's errata page , a problem in the mbuf handling of IPv6 has been elevated to a security issue.

OpenBSD project creator Theo de Raadt detailed his concerns regarding BSD-licensed code and Dual-BSD/GPL-licensed code being re-licensed under only the GPL : "Honestly, I was greatly troubled by the situation, ...

Contributed by jason on Fri Feb 20 01:09:01 2009 from the making-my-job-easy dept.

Open source expert David Chisnall gives us the ins and outs of where OpenBSD has been, where it is now with the new version 3.9, and what lies ahead in the future.

It's been pointed out to me that strncpy etc functions are not without their problems.

" Frank Hecker from the Mozilla Foundation contacted Theo to inform him that the foundation decided to donate $10000 to the OpenSSH project .

As recently reported on OpenBSD's errata page , a problem in the mbuf handling of IPv6 has been elevated to a security issue.

"A few weeks ago, the OpenBSD Project announced that the Portable C Compiler had been added to the OpenBSD source tree.

"After years of encouragement from the OpenBSD community for others to use Reyk Floeter's free atheros wireless driver, it seems that the Linux world is finally listening.

What better way to test these claims than to configure and deploy OpenBSD yourself with more familiar web technologies? This article describes how to add PHP language and MySQL database functionality to OpenBSD ...