FreeBSD follows a similar pattern to linux, security at the expense of performance is a regression.<p>the reason people say that Linux is insecure is probably because Linus&#x27; stances take a hard line, in that &quot;you must understand what you&#x27;re doing in order to make a patch&quot;.<p>The problem is, QA and auditing is only <i>so</i> good and doesn&#x27;t always catch the people who really don&#x27;t know what they&#x27;re doing.. So Linus is openly hostile to people who do stupid things consistently in some sort of attempt to fend off the others who are doing silly things although perhaps not realising it.<p>That&#x27;s my impression and it&#x27;s based on nothing more than an outside perspective so I&#x27;m probably way off base, but Linus has certainly been quoted before as saying things like &quot;anybody who pushes for security first is a masturbating monkey&quot;, avoiding integrating GRSec and PaX for aeons and it&#x27;s usually left up to distro maintainers to cherry pick the bug fixes from the mainline kernel branch.