[GTALUG] interesting article on FreeBSD kernel almost getty dangerous code

[James Knott]

On 2021-03-29 2:08 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> I think a more correct lesson is: FreeBSD has so few people involved
> (and their processes for comming don't require review) that things don't
> get checked in many cases.  I certainly don't get the impression that
> there is much activity or use going on with any of the BSDs anymore
> (and in my opinion having used them, rightfully so.).
>
> Certainly the linux kernel has stuff reviewed by multiple people, in
> public, and has to go through multiple people before being accepted in.
> Things can still go wrong, but I don't think anything like what FreeBSD
> experienced here would be possible.
>
> -- 

When I started using pfsense, about 5 years ago, I was surprised it was 
using FreeBSD and not Linux.  I also found BSD to be a bit crude, 
compared to Linux.  The only reason I stopped using SUSE for my firewall 
was it didn't support DHCPv6-PD, which pfsense did.