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HardenedBSD


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Founded in 2014 by Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb, HardenedBSD is a security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD. The HardenedBSD Project is implementing many exploit mitigation and security technologies on top of FreeBSD. The project started with Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) as an initial focal point and is now implementing further exploit mitigation techniques.


Popularity (hits per day): 12 months: 188 (44), 6 months: 165 (50), 3 months: 180 (37), 4 weeks: 150 (46), 1 week: 181 (35)

Average visitor rating: 9/10 from 1 review(s).


HardenedBSD Summary
Distribution HardenedBSD
Home Page https://hardenedbsd.org/
Mailing Lists https://hardenedbsd.org/content/mailing-lists
User Forums --
Alternative User Forums
Documentation https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD/wikihttps://hardenedbsd.org/content/hardenedbsd-handbook
Screenshots DistroWatch Gallery
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Download Mirrors https://installers.hardenedbsd.org/pub/
Bug Tracker --
Related Websites  
Reviews  
Where To Donate, Buy, or Try

Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2018-12-18: BSD Release: HardenedBSD 12-1200058
 • More HardenedBSD releases...

  Headlines:
 • 2024-02-01 Introducing new sysctl options
 • 2024-01-17 HardenedBSD adjusts its build schedule
 • 2023-03-31 HardenedBSD plans for outage in June
 • 2022-09-01 August status report from HardenedBSD
 • 2020-11-26 HardenedBSD welcomes new contributors
 • 2018-04-30 Switching back to OpenSSL
 • More HardenedBSD headlines...

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  • Notes: In case where multiple versions of a package are shipped with a distribution, only the default version appears in the table. For indication about the GNOME version, please check the "nautilus" and "gnome-shell" packages. The Apache web server is listed as "httpd" and the Linux kernel is listed as "linux". The KDE desktop is represented by the "plasma-desktop" package and the Xfce desktop by the "xfdesktop" package.
  • Colour scheme: green text = latest stable version, red text = development or beta version. The function determining beta versions is not 100% reliable due to a wide variety of versioning schemes.
Feature 14-stable 13-build-322 12-build-651
Release Date 2023-09-11 2022-01-03 2022-01-05
End Of Life      
Price (US$) Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 460-1400 300-1000 300-1000
Free Download ISO ISO ISO
Installation Text Text Text
Default Desktop -- -- --
Package Management TXZ (pkg) TXZ (pkg) TXZ (pkg)
Release Model Semi-Rolling Semi-Rolling Semi-Rolling
Office Suite -- -- --
Processor Architecture x86_64 x86_64 x86_64
Init Software RC RC RC
Journaled File Systems UFS, ZFS UFS, ZFS UFS, ZFS
Multilingual      
Asian Language Support      
Full Package List 14-stable    
abiword (3.0.5) -- 3.0.1 3.0.1
alsa-lib (1.2.11) 1.2.2 1.1.2 1.1.2
amdgpu (23.0.0) -- -- --
bash (5.2.21) 5.2 5.0 4.4
bind (9.18.21) -- -- --
chromium (121.0.6167.139) -- 75.0.3770.100 61.0.3163.100
cups (2.4.7) 2.4.6 2.2.11 2.2.8
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) -- 1.3.0 1.3.0
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) -- 1.45.2 1.44.2
firefox (122.0) -- 68.0 61.0
freetype (2.13.2) 2.13.1 1.3.1 1.3.1
gcc (13.2.0) -- 8 6
gimp (2.10.36) -- 2.10.12 2.8.22
glibc (2.39) -- -- --
gnome-shell (45.3) -- 3.28.3 3.18.5
gnucash (5.5) -- 3.6 2.6.19
gnumeric (1.12.56) -- 1.12.43 1.12.28
grub (2.12) -- 2.00 2.00
gtk (4.12.5) 4.12.0 3.22.30 2.24.32
httpd (2.4.58) 2.4.57 2.4.39 2.4.33
inkscape (1.3.1) -- 0.92.4 0.92.2
k3b (23.08.4) -- 19.04.3 18.04.2
kmod (31) -- -- --
krita (5.2.2) -- 4.1.5 4.0.4
LibreOffice (24.2.0) -- 6.2.5 6.0.5
linux (6.7.3) -- -- --
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- 0.9.3 0.9.3
mariadb (11.1.3) -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.26.2) 1.26.0 1.22.0 1.20.0
mesa (24.0.0) 22.3.7 8.4.0 8.4.0
mysql (8.3.0) -- 1.7.40 1.7.40
nautilus (45.2.1) -- -- 3.18.5
NVIDIA (545.29.06) -- -- --
openbox (3.6.1) -- 3.6 3.6
openjdk (21.0.2) 8.382.05.1 11.0.3
openssh (9.6p1) -- -- --
openssl (3.2.1) -- 1.0.2s 1.1.0h
perl (5.38.2) -- -- --
php (8.3.2) -- 7.3.5 7.2.7
plasma-desktop (5.27.10) -- -- --
postfix (3.8.5) -- 3.4.6 3.3.1
postgresql (16.1) 15.4 10.9 --
Python (3.12.1) -- 3.6.9 2.7
qt (6.6.1) 6.5.2 5.12.2 5.10.1
samba (4.19.4) -- -- --
systemd (255.3) -- -- --
thunderbird (115.7.0) -- 60.8.0 52.8.0
vim (9.1) 9.0 8.1 8.1
vlc (3.0.20) -- 3.0.7.1 2.2.8
wayland (1.22.0) 1.22.0 1.16.0 1.14.0
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- 4.12 4.12
xorg-server (21.1.11) 21.1.8 1.18.4 1.18.4


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Version: 13-build-322
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-05
Votes: 61


The HardenedBSD project has corrected a lot of its shortcomings in the last few months to ease the user experience, I can only recommend to test and use it again.

I especially like the fact that the ports are more up-to-date than freebsd.
In terms of security, the ASLR of HardenedBSD is particularly robust and the highest of all BSD (just compare with paxtest).
The HardenedBSD project seems to be well advanced on the generalization of CFI which will make it a must-have OS in terms of security.

To be followed and encouraged with interest.


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