FreeBSD

{{ Repost from my WordPress site. The information might be slightly outdated. }} On the surface, FreeBSD is almost identical to Linux. The difference is that, like Arch Linux, the base installation doesn’t have the features or configuration that something like Ubuntu provides for non-technical users. This post goes through my process of getting FreeBSD running with a full desktop environment. It should take a couple of hours at most, starting with a basic installation disc or ISO.

{{ Repost of my WordPress article, for reference. Might be slightly outdated. }} Patching, a properly configured firewall and updated anti-malware protection will prevent 99% of security threats. Fortunately all three can be readily added to a FreeBSD installation, and there are some other native features in this operating system that can provide pretty solid security. The most important things, in my opinion, are exploit prevention and mitigation – that is, making it hard as possible for something to exploit software vulnerabilities, and restricting what an exploit could do if executed.