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Story: Open source rival attacks 'terrible' Linux

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De Raadt should know. The Open BSD project is focused on fixing bugs and securing code. This is why Open BSED has earned the title "the worlds most secure operating system". Right from the start of the Open BSD project, the project spent a couple years doing a ground up source code audit to find and fix quality/security issues. In fact, the review even identified bugs in Linux (due to borrowed code) and some other commerical Unix flavors. The Open BSD project continues to this day, with its primary focus on code reviews to enhance the quality/security of the code.

While many Linux guru's will emotionally disagree with this arcticle, De Raadt is correct. Open BSD, via its attention to the development cycle, make Linux look like *junk* (and I qualify junk) "in terms of both security and quality of code". To be fair, Linux is superior to Open BSD in terms of a stronger user community, more applicattions, etc. It can't, however, compete in terms of security and code quality and De Raadt has definitely earned the right to call refer to Linux as junk... he'd know.

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