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Marcan mentions FreeBSD is not a particularly secure OS. My understanding is the BSDs have a reputation for being more secure than Linux. Is this not the case?
by shasheene 10y ago
Marcan mentions FreeBSD is not a particularly secure OS.
My understanding is the BSDs have a reputation for being more secure than Linux. Is this not the case?
- ndesaulniers 10y agoAll software sucks...everything is broken.
- h1d 10y agoHe also mentioned that BSD is dying but then again I thought it's the license that keeps them afloat.
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoHe was probably making a reference to the old "BSD is dying" Slashdot troll copypasta.
- feld 10y agoWhich is actually referencing old Netcraft reports
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoFreeBSD has a bunch of not-especially-secure stuff in it, but it's generally assumed that you've read the manual and will harden and tune a system based on its role. As a project, it doesn't have "secure by default" as a primary goal in the same way that OpenBSD does (not to say that FreeBSD developers don't care about security, just that security isn't elevated above other concerns to the same degree).
- vertex-four 10y agoOpenBSD has a reputation for being more secure than Linux, because OpenBSD's developers put significant effort into security research and secure coding practices. People who expand this to other BSDs are mistaken. FreeBSD is a good general-purpose OS competing in the same space as Linux, and NetBSD will probably run on your toaster.
- Frenchgeek 10y agohttps://www.embeddedarm.com/blog/netbsd-toaster-powered-by-the-ts-7200-arm9-sbc/ https://www.embeddedarm.com/blog/netbsd-toaster-powered-by-t...