alt Hacker NewsWith all the security issues constantly being uncovered in other Operating Systems - which will only accelerate with Ai - it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD. Their decades-long security-focus is second to none. We have fully converted from Ubuntu/Debian to OpenBSD. No looking back.
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Unfortunately the hardware support isn't there for many systems.
If I had to pick a BSD, it would be FreeBSD anyway.
Is OpenBSD actually more secure than Linux? I have not been able to find any data to support this—only some vague opinions.
Openbsd makes a good stopgap.
The way forward is seL4[0][1].
If you care about security, why not consider Qubes OS? Related discussion: https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qubesos-vs-openbsd-security/790...
>it’s time everyone considers OpenBSD
https://x.com/ortegaalfredo/status/2055362910415671459
When your super secure feature gets defeated by a symlink maybe it's not really time to consider it...
Sure, things are not better in the linux world but at least there's more eyes to fix issues there just because of the market share.
I tried OpenBSD recently and found it behaves very differently from other OS. The same code works on Linux/FreeBSD/Windows but has poor multi thread performance on OpenBSD, async socket stopped working after sending at high speed for few seconds. I am not saying there is anything wrong in OpenBSD, it is just different.