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by chatmasta 3120 days ago
> Bugs in syscalls in FreeBSD aren't unheard of though, even if less commonly found than Linux.

Dangerous assumption.

More likely, there are fewer people looking for vulnerabilities in BSD than in Linux.

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Well, I did say

>less commonly found

rather than less common. Impossible to know with 100% certainty what's literally less common.

If I had to guess, I'd guess FreeBSD had less bugs in general, just because the surface is generally smaller, and the system is more homogeneous.