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Old 17th June 2012
gpatrick gpatrick is offline
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Theo had a disagreement with the NetBSD developer team and left to fork OpenBSD.

OpenBSD is a great operating system which I use, along with other Unix-like operating systems, but at times he acts like my 10-year-old daughter! This is one such time.

OpenBSD does have a secure operating system in its base, however, as those developers who left have said, they want to pursue other technologies that Theo won't allow because it would/could lead to a vulnerability. Yet, looking at the US-CERT CVE:

3-months 3-years ALL
OpenBSD 0 13 170
FreeBSD 1 44 443
NetBSD 0 24 193
Solaris 14 320 808
AIX 4 49 304
Linux 85 827 3740
HP-UX 4 26 249

Although OpenBSD has the fewest vulnerabilities, it doesn't have technologies in the base system that other Unix-like systems provide. Comparing FreeBSD, NetBSD, AIX, HP-UX, and OpenBSD over the past 3 years, the fewer number of vulnerabilities in OpenBSD is statistically insignificant.
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