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I'm a huge fan of FreeBSD, though I have to admit - when I was looking at the Vulnerability Statistics chart I wondered to myself "are there fewer identified Fr
by alberth 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of FreeBSD, though I have to admit - when I was looking at the Vulnerability Statistics chart I wondered to myself "are there fewer identified FreeBSD vulnerabilities because there are way fewer FreeBSD users (than Linux)".
- deano 4y agoAs a long time Linux and BSD user I agree with you. You still have to enable basic things that are not turned on by default - i.e. stack protection. A lot of this is enabled by default on OpenBSD. https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html https://vez.mrsk.me/freebsd-defaults.html
- 1-6 4y agoYou can find a Linux distro for everything these days though.
- werid 4y agocan't believe that openbsd dude is still updating that page. he seems to be obsessed with an os he doesn't use.
- kaashif 4y agoI can't believe that either. At most I'd have written an angry blog post and never updated it. Don't know what keeps him going. A desire to see FreeBSD fix those defaults? Desire for OpenBSD to be recognised as having better defaults for security than FreeBSD? What would that even look like?
- 1500100900 4y ago> Don't know what keeps him going. A desire to see FreeBSD fix those defaults? And when they do fix any of those things, what is his reaction going to be? So far it's been "it took them so much time to fix this, let's keep that in mind". The point of it is clearly to convince people to use OpenBSD instead of FreeBSD.
- etc-hosts 4y agoAfter reading all that I feel like the main danger in my house is a IDE drive with an old install of FreeBSD on it.
- neop1x 4y agoI thought the same thing. And also there is probably more code compiled in the majoroty of Linux deployments and that widens the attack surface. So just comparing the absolute vulnerability counters is not useful IMO.