Are the BSDs Dying? Some Security Researchers Think So (csoonline.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:40AM from the closer-look dept.

itwbennett writes: The BSDs have lost the battle for mindshare to Linux, and that may well bode ill for the future sustainability of the BSDs as viable, secure operating systems, writes CSO's JM Porup. The reason why is a familiar refrain: more eyeballs mean more secure code. Porup cites the work of Ilja von Sprundel, director of penetration testing at IOActive, who, noting the "small number of reported BSD kernel vulnerabilities compared to Linux," dug into BSD source code. His search 'easily' turned up about 115 kernel bugs. Porup looks at the relative security of OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD, the effect on Mac OS, and why, despite FreeBSD's relative popularity, OpenBSD may be the most likely to survive.

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Re: BSDs dying? by kobaz · 2018-01-26 07:17 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Uhhmmmmm
apt-get install sysvinit
apt-get remove systemd-sysv
Done and done. No more fscking systemd to fsck everything in the A.

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