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0 pointsdanudey11y ago0 comments

Portability and modernity instead of a security focus?

I'm not sure why I would use a fork of OpenBSD instead of just FreeBSD though. I've always seen the primary benefits of OpenBSD as deriving from their obsessive focus on security, but if this fork isn't focussed on that I'm not sure what I gain vs. other BSDs that already have these goals and objectives in place/completed.

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sigzero11y ago

Exactly. OpenBSD is very specific in what it is. That description is more a description for a fork of FreeBSD or NetBSD.

BBoingo11y ago

OpenBSD has always had a strong focus on protability. It's just the focus on portability was never restricted to "modernity" for the reason that there's few interestingly different processors anymore you can compile against to check for breaking errors.

It would be interesting though if Bitrig became sort of a DragonflyBSD for OpenBSD, where weird experimental stuff can be tested in a separate playground.

renox11y ago

> Portability and modernity instead of a security focus?

It is you who say "instead", can't it be "in addition to"?

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