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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 ha
by 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 agoFor 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.