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macOS is BSD roots on top of Darwin

• accrual 5mo ago
  While true it doesn't answer why OpenBSD is considered more secure by default than Linux. Despite its BSD roots, macOS has had its share of CVEs: https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/49/70318/1/Apple-Macos.html https://www.cvedetails.com/version-list/49/70318/1/Apple-Mac...
• JdeBP 5mo ago
  That's not specifically OpenBSD, though. The BSD world is not the monolith that it was back in the 1980s.
  • avadodin 5mo ago
    True. No relevance to macOS and iOS. With due mention to FreeBSD's jails, BSD's security image developed mostly from OpenBSD which is said to have gained its security focus due to NetBSD being so insecure that the NetBSD folks were able to hack into DeRaadt's forked OpenBSD. Android's Bionic was based on or heavily influenced by OpenBSD's libc iirc, though.