On 2021-03-29 2:08 p.m., Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
I think a more correct lesson is: FreeBSD has so few people involved (and their processes for comming don't require review) that things don't get checked in many cases. I certainly don't get the impression that there is much activity or use going on with any of the BSDs anymore (and in my opinion having used them, rightfully so.).
Certainly the linux kernel has stuff reviewed by multiple people, in public, and has to go through multiple people before being accepted in. Things can still go wrong, but I don't think anything like what FreeBSD experienced here would be possible.
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When I started using pfsense, about 5 years ago, I was surprised it was using FreeBSD and not Linux. I also found BSD to be a bit crude, compared to Linux. The only reason I stopped using SUSE for my firewall was it didn't support DHCPv6-PD, which pfsense did.