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I can guarantee you'll need to use an operating system, they're rather essential. Ensuring the basic building blocks are available for future use is beneficial, and showing what has previously been built with them shows why.
No need to be smug, FreeBSD is hardly the only operating system available to us.
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Don't do that. HardenedBSD is rather a one man project, who's patches have been reviewed and rejected by FreeBSD developers due to bad quality, poor design and lack of cooperation in bringing them to FreeBSD expected standards. It seems like a PR campaign from people who can write some C, but don't have much credibility in writing secure operating systems or production ready code. Beside the quality of the proposed s…
I could be wrong but I was under the impression certain sec folks objected to a lot of his patches because they just are not sold on if ASLR really adds any benefit. Or any benefit vs the complexity it adds. Correct me if I’m wrong. I know Theo has bought into it. I just recall in FreeBSD it wasn’t accepted if it really fixes anything.