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I wonder if the same is true for OpenBSD systems, given their greater focus on security.

I came across some slides once which compared bugs in Linux & BSDs. Overall it found that bugs per lines of code was relatively consistent across projects, but OpenBSD came out ahead since they tend to have less lines of code

But it definitely wasn't zero

It was alleged that the FBI paid someone to put that kind of backdoor masquerading as a bug into OpenBSD, but no evidence was ever found. OpenBSD being discussed as a possible target by an ex-FBI consultant is enough for me to assume they have something.

This just made me wonder about the engineering culture at the FBI. Do they have standups and roadmaps? What's their relationship with the rest of the FBI? Do they search stackoverflow like the rest of us? Are they in on all the latest programmer memes? Maybe it's just the secrecy but there's something fascinating about all of this.

It is a great OS, they do focus on security. On the other hand they use old compilers for license reasons and threading is not yet on the same level as in FreeBSD or NetBSD.

The kernel itself should hopefully be unaffected by these issues though.

They do update compilers now. Except for some architectures.

    $ cc -v
    OpenBSD clang version 10.0.1 
    Target: amd64-unknown-openbsd6.8
    Thread model: posix
    InstalledDir: /usr/bin

Threading is plenty fast, and the kernel has, like everything, bugs.

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