@LostWanderer @darcmage @unexposedhazard @9tr6gyp3 @wltr Much of that list is outdated or invalid, and the overall view of the FreeBSD project and security team is quite misguided. That said, there are indeed a couple of good points in there still waiting to be picked up.
Anyhow, there are many good reasons to choose FreeBSD, or not choose FreeBSD, but it would be a mistake to let that post drive your decision.
@LostWanderer @darcmage @unexposedhazard @9tr6gyp3 @wltr
- OpenSSH: Mostly ancient history
- Mailer daemon: Mostly ancient history, and Sendmail is no longer in the base system
- Firewall: There are indeed 3 firewalls, which is unfortunate. Just use pf. Most of what this article says about FreeBSD's pf is wrong.
- Ports and Packages: Many operations shouldn't be done as root. There are opportunities to improve documentation and enforcement (e.g. disallow running as root)