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by chasil 1346 days ago
OpenBSD does not run the X server as root, so it does have a security benefit over more modern systems.

  USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ   RSS TT  STAT   STARTED       TIME COMMAND
  _x11     71289  0.0  0.6 11164 24992 ??  S       9:06AM    0:00.41 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt05 ...
  root      2878  0.0  0.0  2696  1412 ??  IpU     9:06AM    0:00.04 X: [priv] (Xorg)
I understand that their malloc conversion from sbrk to mmap flushed out some long-standing X bugs as well.

http://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2005082419031...