I am too lazy to research it and still wondering. Can someone give me a basic explanation of it?

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    10 months ago

    I wouldn’t recommend OpenBSD as it is fairly obscure compared to Linux. I’ve yet to see a real world example of how it is somehow better

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      10 months ago

      They developed new system calls (pledge and unveil) which restrict they system calls and file access of programs (here’s a good writeup by Andreas Kling after he added support in SerenityOS: https://awesomekling.github.io/pledge-and-unveil-in-SerenityOS/). As an example, the Firefox port for OpenBSD uses them to heavily restrict what random websites can do or get from your system.

      Just one example since you’ve somehow yet to see any.