FreeBSD 11.0 Released

[Ben Mezger]

As I am still trying to understand OpenBSDs core, is there a main reason
I should check out FreeBSD (except the reasons you pointed out)? How is
the default security on FreeBSD? I've read it somewhere something like:
"FreeBSD devs don't really care much about security as much as they should"
How true is this statement?

1. How does FreeBSD handle ASLR? If any, does it use SEGVGUARD?
2. How easy can I sandbox software? Using jails only?
3. How about W^X?
4. Trusted Path Execution?

Thanks!

On 10/11/2016 02:08 PM, Tom wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 01:07:51PM -0300, Ben Mezger wrote:
>> Is anyone here using FreeBSD?
> 
> I use it at home and we use it at work (hundreds of FreeBSD boxes).
> It is stable, maintainable, good to update, has pretty good hardware
> support and superior performance.
> 
>> Why would anyone choose FreebSD over
>> OpenBSD? Number of packages available?
> 
> FreeBSD has a way larger developer community and is in wide use,
> especially by companies. 
> 
> You didn't ask, but: if you ever use FreeBSD for a longer time, you'll
> never go back to Linux. At least not voluntarily :)
> 
> 
> - Tom
> 

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Ben Mezger
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