BSD Interviews

OpenBSD : Interviews : OpenBSD PF Developer Interview
Posted: ( Mon 31st May 2004 05:19:58[PM] UTC )
OpenBSD's PF packet filter has grown in power and appeal since its introduction in OpenBSD 3.0. With the imminent release of OpenBSD 3.5, Federico Biancuzzi interviewed several leading OpenBSD developers for their thoughts on PF and new features.

NetBSD : Interviews : Interview with NetBSD's Luke Mewburn
Posted: ( Sat 6th Mar 2004 02:30:36[AM] UTC )
The NetBSD Project announced Monday that release 1.6.2 of the NetBSD operating system is now available, with binary distributions for 40 architectures. Newsforge interviewed Luke Mewburn of the NetBSD Core Group and asked him about the NetBSD project in general, the long awaiting release 2.0, and a lot of technical and organizational issues.

FreeBSD : Interviews : Robert Watson on FreeBSD and TrustedBSD
Posted: ( Thu 18th Jan 2001 07:50:33[PM] UTC )
"TrustedBSD and SELinux are similar in many ways, and also differ in many ways. The similarities lie in overlapping functionality and architectural goals; the differences only begin with the choice of operating systems ... SELinux differs from TrustedBSD in that it is a more mature system, having been worked on for several years, that it addresses only mandatory access controls, and that it uses the Flask architecture rather than explicit hard-coded policies."

NetBSD : Interviews : How NetBSD 1.5 was born
Posted: ( Mon 8th Jan 2001 10:16:04[PM] UTC )
"NetBSD's biggest release impediment is also its most important feature: we released 1.5 on 10 base CPU types comprising 20 groups of hardware architectures. Taking in to account I/O buses, MMUs, and system controllers that another OS would consider to be different platforms, the actual number of specific hardware platforms is somewhere closer to 40 ... NetBSD runs on more hardware platforms than any other full-featured OS in history."

BSD : Interviews : A roundtable on BSD, security, and quality
Posted: ( Sun 7th Jan 2001 07:00:31[PM] UTC )
Theo deRaadt, Todd Miller, Angelos Keromytis, and Werner Losh, discuss several topics, including the evolving distinction between Linux and BSD and the notion that reliability and security are achieved through simplicity.

BSD : Interviews : Paul Anderson, the BSD/OS product manager
Posted: ( Wed 13th Dec 2000 06:48:39[PM] UTC )
As a small company, Anderson said, BSDi's engineers handled the security aspects of the software, but as the company became bigger, it often became assumed that someone else did it. Nevertheless, the security tradition continues: "In general, what we ship with our products contain the newest security patches."