this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026
695 points (99.4% liked)

Technology

84041 readers
3413 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Scirocco@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Somewhat like it, but with different operational goals.

FreeBSD focuses on wide hardware compatibility and very high speed.

OpenBSD focuses on security, exclusively. It's slower and with a narrower range of supported hardware, but a MUCH higher effort in security, assurance and audit.

So, the fact that some bugs have been found in FreeBSD is more or less irrelevant to the security of OpenBSD

You may not be aware, but find it interesting that MacOS is also a BSD variant, and there was a distro called NetBSD which was (is?) focused on what you'd expect from the name of it.

Another thing you might not know is that the OpenBSD folks also publish OpenSSH which is a very well regarded and widely used package.

Of course all software is subject to bugs/error/vulnerabilities and OpenSSH as well as OpenBSD are constantly being reviewed, revised and audited for potential security issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH