search

mayfrost / guides

Looking for a guide? You came to the right place. Here you can find documentation for a variety of topics I research to make complex computing easier. For comments go to the IRC channel #nfo at the Rizon network.
Other
1.88k stars 102 forks source link

Why avoid BSD? #3

Open retipuj opened 6 years ago

retipuj commented 6 years ago

According to the security guide, I should avoid BSD. What's the reason behind that? I don't really know much about BSD, but from what I've read, OpenBSD is a very secure operating system (it is often said that it's even better than GNU/Linux). Care to elaborate the reasons why it's so bad?

mayfrost commented 6 years ago

But would you recommend BSD to people starting out?

retipuj commented 6 years ago

I wouldn't, because I know very little about it and I'm starting out myself. I wouldn't recommend against it either, for the same reasons. The way you put it, though, makes it seem like you know about some big flaw (other than not being begginer friendly) on BSD and that's why it should be avoided. I was interested in what that flaw is, if it exists.

mayfrost commented 6 years ago

What wording are you asking me to use?

Xaleth commented 5 years ago

OpenBSD is really good at security feats tho.

But TAILS does it better IMO.

mayfrost commented 5 years ago

This is going off-topic but the main issue is where to place the recommendation and if it fits a criteria. For example, QubesOS is a great platform for security and most probably deserves a mention as it is advised by Snowden, but in which level should it be, what use case. For some it covers all issues, but it isn't minimal and one can wonder if the project isn't too big to fail, but that is going way off-topic.

ghost commented 5 years ago

I'm sorry for feeding the troll :|