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But you forgot Security. "Trusted Computing", now that's innovation at it's best!! (Trusted Debian and OpenBSD haven't innovated at all, they are just copies of 20+ year old technology.).

Yo. :$

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There is no other UNIX system which adds the same kind of protection against buffer overflows and at the same time protects against some less well-known or even some unknown problems. Except for OpenBSD
OK, the next line does say that the trusted debian developes think that OpenBSD falls short on these things. Having seen the maturity of the trusted debian project, it seems to me that whilst this may or may not be true, certainly trusted debian has a long way to go before it can accomplish a similar level of code audit in relation to how it interacts with OS.

It seems from the replies that I got to my question that I have come accross as some kind of OpenBSD zealot. Not the case. I was merely interested in what this new platform provided that OpenBSD doesn't already strive to achieve. As far as I can tell, all that this brings is some nifty kernel patches. But it has a long way to go before it can reach the stebility and security of the other "Trusted" OS's.

No, it doesn't. It will include RSBAC in the near future, but the first step was this.