[ixtli]

You'd be shocked to know how long after this was shown academically to be a Good Idea™ it took to get it into operating systems like Windows. The reason back then was because application programmers depended (incorrectly!) on sequential allocations so when you started randomizing things you'd break stuff.

Idk if that's the case here but its been a big reason historically.

I know OpenBSD doesn't prioritize new features but KASLR is a pretty significant security improvement, right?

[tedunangst]

Application programmers should not care about the address of the kernel.