Green Hills Software on free software in the military [LWN.net]

Green Hills Software on free software in the military

Posted Apr 11, 2004 5:18 UTC (Sun) by skybrian (subscriber, #365)
Parent article: Green Hills Software on free software in the military

There is FUD in the article, but I don't understand why it's so unreasonable to believe that Linux
is not the most secure operating system out there. The question is what your standards are for
code quality, and it's certainly possible to have higher standards than Linux, for those situations
where security is more important than functionality. There are good reasons why folks run
OpenBSD on firewalls, after all.

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Green Hills Software on free software in the military

Posted Apr 11, 2004 10:56 UTC (Sun) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

Actually, neither of the forms of security discussed in the article had anything to do with code quality. OpenBSD lets the same set of people work on it as Linux does, especially for shared stuff like the compiler. Furthermore, OpenBSD is a Unix, just like Linux is, and shares the same (fairly insecure) Unix security model.