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FreeBSD has four releases of their entire operating system in support right now, across three major versions, supported almost entirely by volunteer work. If Op
by vertex-four 12y ago
FreeBSD has four releases of their entire operating system in support right now, across three major versions, supported almost entirely by volunteer work. If OpenSSL can't support four minor versions of their security-critical codebase, I don't think it's possible to trust them.
- laumars 12y agoYeah true, however I don't think that's a fair comparison. Maintaining older FreeBSD repos wouldn't require large amounts of original code in the same way as maintaining multiple branches of OpenSSL. Plus the "security-critical" part of your post needs to be emphasised.
- vertex-four 12y ago> Maintaining older FreeBSD repos wouldn't require large amounts of original code in the same way as maintaining multiple branches of OpenSSL. Really? FreeBSD repos contain large amounts of both original and external (sometimes modified) code. If there's a security issue, it's entirely possible that all of them need patches.