[landr0id]

HardenedBSD (FreeBSD fork) has had ASLR and other mitigations since forever. Shawn submitted a patch that was never merged because of mailing list politics or something of that sort + people afraid it was going to break the world.

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D473

[cperciva]

> politics or something of that sort

I suppose you could classify "the patch doesn't work and breaks other things besides" that way.

[landr0id]

HardenedBSD got the userland running fine. It was iirc mostly irrational fear by the FreeBSD team that someone's bad application would break.

[loeg]

Nope. The code had major problems that were highlighted during code review, and Shawn never fixed them.

[gonzo]

That’s not what happened.