OSS Blog.it: Solar Designer on Openwall GNU/*/Linux

“First of all, why have you decided to realize a
security enhanced Linux distro, is Linux a better choice than
OpenBSD and *BSD in general?

“S.D. There’s real demand specifically for
security-enhanced Linux systems. Linux is widespread, it has good
hardware support, there’s a lot of software available for it
(including some commercial packages), and there are system
administrators with specific Linux skills. Of course, OpenBSD and
other *BSDs have their user bases, too–and people are working on
the security of those systems. No, Linux (the kernel) is not a
better choice than *BSDs security-wise. But it is not substantially
worse either…”

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