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    3 days ago

    Somewhat like it, but with different operational goals.

    FreeBSD focuses on wide hardware compatibility and very high speed.

    OpenBSD focuses on security, exclusively. It’s slower and with a narrower range of supported hardware, but a MUCH higher effort in security, assurance and audit.

    So, the fact that some bugs have been found in FreeBSD is more or less irrelevant to the security of OpenBSD

    You may not be aware, but find it interesting that MacOS is also a BSD variant, and there was a distro called NetBSD which was (is?) focused on what you’d expect from the name of it.

    Another thing you might not know is that the OpenBSD folks also publish OpenSSH which is a very well regarded and widely used package.

    Of course all software is subject to bugs/error/vulnerabilities and OpenSSH as well as OpenBSD are constantly being reviewed, revised and audited for potential security issues.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH