Re: How much does battle-testing weigh?

2022-03-15 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Economics 101: doesn't matter what you say, it matters what you DO. Everyone says security is important; few actually give a shit about it. Amen brother! That's right to the point! Nick.

Re: How much does battle-testing weigh?

2022-03-15 Thread Nick Holland
On 3/14/22 4:31 PM, the guy who couldn't solve a trivial problem without vi on the install media wrote: Billions of companies world wide use the Linux kernel and several of the major Linux distributions daily. It would stand to reason that that would make a lot more bugs be discovered. The

Re: How much does battle-testing weigh?

2022-03-15 Thread readme
On Tue, Mar 15, 2022 at 01:08:38AM +0100, i...@tutanota.com wrote: >Do you believe that OpenBSD has less attack vectors? I fail to see >that. If I install a basic Debian, just as an example, with only the >base system, there is nothing running to attack. If I install NGINX on >OpenBSD and on

Re: How much does battle-testing weigh?

2022-03-14 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 8:13 PM wrote: > Please see "Are all BSDs created equally. OpenBSD vs NetBSD vs FreeBSD" > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvSPqo3_3vM > > How they are handled is another matter, but its just as easy as it is in > other OS's. > > Do you believe that OpenBSD has less attack

Re: How much does battle-testing weigh?

2022-03-14 Thread bigato
It depends on your threat model. All else being equal, using a less known OS can even be safer. A popular OS will have many people motivated to dedicate time to find flaws and thus, will have many more known vulnerabilities plus a number of holes that are not disclosed by the reearchers. If