Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so

Posted by behnamoh on Monday January 20, 2020 @06:43PM
from the csoonline.com dept.

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Re:Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so by devhwrng on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:12PM (#22103475)

(January 2018)

FreeBSD has always been so far behind in basic security migitations. It is 2020, and FreeBSD still doesn't have ASLR.

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Re:Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so by theta_d on Monday January 20, 2020 @08:31PM (#22103578)

It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: *BSD is dying.

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Re:Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so by jki275 on Monday January 20, 2020 @09:54PM (#22103954)

Old article. And it ignores the one true desktop Unix, OSX.

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Re:Are the BSDs dying? Some security researchers think so by mekster on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @05:09AM (#22105616)

As long as it's BSD license, it won't die due to many manufacturers depending on an OS where it doesn't have to opensource their additions.

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