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Calgary Herald: Calgarian heads team ensuring OpenBSD security

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 30, 1999

“De Raadt has been working for three years on OpenBSD, a variant
of the Unix operating system. Unix, favoured by academics,
researchers and systems administrators for its power and
flexibility, is the foundation for many popular operating systems,
including Sun, Solaris and Linux.”

What Linus Torvalds is to the increasingly popular Linux,
de Raadt is to OpenBSD.
He oversees hundreds of volunteer
programmers who pore over OpenBSD’s code trying to make it better,
for little more than glory and the satisfaction of making software
better.”

“Unlike any other operating system, OpenBSD is engineered from
the ground up with security in mind.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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