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I'm a web developer primarily, and I'm accustomed to Linux servers with the likes of CentOS and Ubuntu. I've been seeing a lot of talk lately about how secure

• darkarmani 12y ago
  If you are primarily a web developer who knows nothing about BSD, I don't think you want to choose BSD for security reasons. The underlying OS might be more hardened, but if you don't know the system and applications as well as you know in linux, it's more likely you'll have a configuration error that opens a gaping security hole.
  • ketralnis 12y ago
    For instance, the default mail system in FreeBSD is still sendmail (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/sendmail.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/sendmail.html). It's pretty easy to accidentally configure it as an open relay, even if you mostly know what you're doing. Until 10, BIND was the default DNS server (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-dns.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-dns.html), which has the same kinds of configuration problems.
• ris 12y ago
  "Is it something I should start looking into?" No. Don't bother. The only BSD that has a security edge over linux is OpenBSD and you're probably not happy to lose the performance (and often hardware support) it would entail. It's also lacking a lot of the platform management linux systems have (package management stone ages - you won't have fun upgrading it). It's great for critical systems, though. It's just the majority of the time I'm not willing to give up the niceties I would have to.