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

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Mar 29 17:49:37 EDT 2021


On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 04:10:38PM -0400, Peter King via talk wrote:
> OpenBSD is still thriving, and they carefully audit all their code before
> incorporating it, as well as have ongoing rolling security audits.  They
> may be too extreme in their focus, but that's another issue.

Oh OpenBSD definitely handles code updates in a safer way than FreeBSD,
although it seems their rate of progress may be even lower then FreeBSD
and not too much is happening there.

And I doubt any of the BSDs will ever have a userspace that is worth
putting up with.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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