[BLU/Officers] Chimera Linux

[Bill Ricker]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 08:55 Kurt Keville <kurt.keville at gmail.com> wrote:

> I will look through this. As Bill implied, we may inherit more problems
> than solutions from the BSD family tree
>

Not so much problems, as differences.

but it will be interesting to see if it solves one of the problems
> considered a deal-breaker in the current paradigm. If it solves "security"
> to the satisfaction of most proponents it may have traction
>

If the modern musl libc is more memory safe by design despite same API it
will apply a performance penalty to any code still using the unsafe be
design original routines, AND THAT IS OK.

. As they used to say at the Salem Willows Skee-ball pavilion, "One oh-shit
> wipes out a thousand atta-boys" and right now we are well into the oh-shit
> realm on Linux-adjacent security.
>

Well pretty much everywhere. Mac isn't much better on 0days than Win & Lin.
I would *like* to think lack of (non Mac) BSD 0 days is as much from better
software and defaults as from just lower uptake.
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