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by bmh_ca 3176 days ago
> Do you really think the tools you use like your web browser, mail client etc, have less vulnerabilities on OpenBSD than on any other BSD or linux distribution, please...

Yes. OpenBSD employs several mechanisms that improve the security of every application e.g. W^X and stack protector.

See: https://www.openbsd.org/security.html

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All of those are available on linux distributions, enabled by default.

Not only that, they were developed on linux distributions and available on them way before obsd.

No, they are not.
Stack protector was developed by Immunix, W^X was developed by Openwall, both for linux.