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HardenedBSD

Last Update: 2022-01-06 01:18 UTC

OS Type: BSD
Based on: FreeBSD
Origin: USA
Architecture: x86_64
Desktop: No Desktop
Category: Security
Status: Active
Popularity: 197 (43 hits per day)

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: 207 (40), 6 months: 197 (43), 3 months: 186 (41), 4 weeks: 209 (32), 1 week: 198 (32)

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
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Documentation	https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedBSD/wiki • https://hardenedbsd.org/content/hardenedbsd-handbook
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Download Mirrors	http://installer.hardenedbsd.org/
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Recent Related News and Releases

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

Headlines:
• 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
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Average rating
9.0
from 1 review(s)

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Version: 13-build-322
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-05
Votes: 8

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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