Grex Jellyware Conference

Item 100: Linus Torvalds on OpenBSD

Entered by remmers on Thu Jul 17 14:18:15 2008:

1 new of 7 responses total.


#3 of 7 by gull on Thu Jul 17 21:58:28 2008:

I've run OpenBSD in the past, and I think they do some good work, but I
sure do steer a wide berth around all of the politics involved.  I kind
of agree that their focus is a bit too narrow.  When it comes to the BSD
world, I think FreeBSD is sort of the best of both worlds.  They're more
interested in supporting new hardware and improving performance, and the
fixes for security holes that the OpenBSD folks find usually get ported
over.

One thing to keep in mind when comparing the BSD security model to
Linux's, though, is that the various BSD distributions make no claims at
all about the security of anything that isn't in the base system.  They
don't do security notifications about problems in other software (the
"ports tree"); you're expected to keep track of those packages yourself.
 Linux distributions tend to take a more supervisory role where they
track the security status of everything they make available.


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