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OpenBSD Turns Eleven

Contributed by deanna on from the openbsd-fanclub dept.

It's been eleven years to the day since the formation of the OpenBSD Project. In celebration, here's a little timeline of memorable events. Feel free to add your own entries and links.

Happy Birthday, OpenBSD! An OpenBSD Timeline

October 18, 1995: OpenBSD CVS repository created 

File: [OpenBSD] / src / bin / cat / cat.c
Revision 1.1, Wed Oct 18 08:37:01 1995 UTC (11 years ago) by deraadt

October 18, 1996: OpenBSD 2.0 released

Dec 20, 1996: news.announce.newgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd

Dec 24, 1996: www.openbsd.org

June 4, 1999: c99, the first OpenBSD Hackathon, held in Calgary

June 10, 1999: Safe String Functions presented at USENIX

December 1, 1999: OpenBSD 2.6 ships with OpenSSH

Nov 11, 2000: Bugtraq report -- ANOTHER OpenBSD security vulnerablity!!!

May 30, 2001: License audit results in IPF's removal from OpenBSD

June 24 2001: pf, OpenBSD's own packet filter, is imported.

Late 2001: OpenBSD indirectly receives DARPA grant

December 1, 2001: OpenBSD 3.0, first release with musical accompaniment: "E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix)"

April 16, 2003: Toronto Globe and Mail publishes comment from Theo on DARPA which leads to termination of funding

December 10-12, 2004: First Annual OpenCON, the conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD, Venice, Italy

February 26, 2005: Theo de Raadt presented with 2004 Free Software Award

October 13, 2006: OpenBSD 4.0 pre-orders arrive in Europe

October 18, 2006: OpenBSD celebrates its 11th Birthday

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (87.78.90.228) on

    lots of dates to remember.
    19. here already, but happy b anyway! :)

  2. By Anonymous Coward (213.239.205.131) on

    > December 1, 1999: OpenSSH ships with OpenBSD 2.6
    Shouldn`t it be like this:
    December 1, 1999: OpenBSD 2.6 ships with OpenSSH

    Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (64.231.232.11) on

      Oops, fixed.

      And it's still the 18th in Canada. :-)

  3. By Anonymous Coward (71.138.165.178) on

    Here's to another 11 years and more.

  4. Comments

    1. By Anonymous Coward (151.136.100.2) on

      of course there is calendar.openbsd that is perhaps
      too deep hidden for anybody to know about...

  6. By Karol Swietlicki (89.78.18.128) on

    One thing that slightly bothers me in all the timelines out there:
    OpenBSD had only one remote hole in the default install. That fact is even on the main page. I think it should be listed too. Kinda goes well with the full disclosure policy. Because there is only one, I think it would actually give the system a better image out there.

    "On this day the ONLY remote hole in the system was found. This situation did not repeat up to this date." or something like that.

    Happy birthday OpenBSD!
    As soon as I get paid, I am buying 4.0.
    Best. System. Ever.

    Comments

    1. By Joachim Schipper (82.157.194.81) on

      > One thing that slightly bothers me in all the timelines out there:
      > OpenBSD had only one remote hole in the default install. That fact is even on the main page. I think it should be listed too. Kinda goes well with the full disclosure policy. Because there is only one, I think it would actually give the system a better image out there.

      I believe this is this problem.

      Joachim

    2. By qaaz (213.211.51.62) on

      Yes, as the most stupid sentence ever :)

  7. By unixjunkie (207.47.9.5) on

    Out of all the tee-shirts, the redheaded daemon is out of print. I would really like to get one, and was thinking to have a few printed. do I need to get any permissions on the art or something?would anyone else be interested to buy one?

    Comments

    1. By Nate (74.13.41.213) on

      > Out of all the tee-shirts, the redheaded daemon is out of print. I would really like to get one, and was thinking to have a few printed. do I need to get any permissions on the art or something?would anyone else be interested to buy one?

      Well, considering that is copyright infringment to try selling it, I'd skip that part. Theo's permissions to the art are quite specific and do not allow for profit.

      Comments

      1. By Anonymous Coward (67.174.221.154) on

        > > Out of all the tee-shirts, the redheaded daemon is out of print. I would really like to get one, and was thinking to have a few printed. do I need to get any permissions on the art or something?would anyone else be interested to buy one?
        >
        > Well, considering that is copyright infringment to try selling it, I'd skip that part. Theo's permissions to the art are quite specific and do not allow for profit.

        I don't really want to make any money, I will just sell it at cost.
        the thing is we will all get a better price if we have a good size order.
        is anyone else interested?

  8. By uv (201.245.46.101) on

    very very ,Tanks Theo.

  9. By Eugenix (194.187.48.254) on

    ! greetings ! BEST WISHES ! Наснаги ! =;-)

  10. By Anonymous Coward (212.17.194.154) on

    The best! :>

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