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if you want security, you have no business running Linux-anything, not now, not ever: the choices are either OpenBSD or SmartOS, and rejoice that we do have alternatives.<p>That&#x27;s a very bold assertion and you haven&#x27;t even tried to back it up. Who do you think is going to read that and say “some random Internet commenter is right and Google&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;the NSA&#x2F;etc. must all be incompetent”? You really need to back that claim up and do so comprehensively across the entire security landscape from basic design to operational concerns like patch management.<p>(As an example: I&#x27;ve never logged into a Solaris &#x2F; Illumos machine which was current on security updates because the admins didn&#x27;t have the confidence which Debian admins have had since the 90s that updates won&#x27;t break things. I&#x27;m open to the argument that they&#x27;re all paranoid or incompetent but that&#x27;s probably the most important real world security task and it at least merits discussion)