Talk:OpenBSD security features

This article was nominated for deletion on 21 October 2017. The result of the discussion was keep.

This page was proposed for deletion by Tonystewart14 (talk · contribs) on 13 October 2017 with the comment:
Redundant with main article
It was contested by Syrenka V (talk · contribs) on 2017-10-19 with the comment:
Not redundant, gives much more detailed information

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Portal:Free software: OBSD security features is now the selected article

Just to let you know. The purpose of selecting an article is both to point readers to the article and to highlight it to potential contributors. It will remain on the portal for a week or so. The previous selected article was GStreamer - a streaming framework that underlies the GNOME desktop.

For other interesting free software articles, you can take a look at the archive of PF's selectees. --Gronky (talk) 08:24, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The selection has moved on and is now Amarok - an audio player and music organiser based on the KDE libraries. --Gronky (talk) 22:37, 27 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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This article would deserve to be worked through extensively, right now it's informal and fairly unclear. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.177.85.182 (talk) 07:48, 16 October 2017‎ (UTC)[reply]

X11 security

This needs to be clarified by community members. The now-previous text was not up to date and at least now the article reflects that X11 on OpenBSD not implies opening up lowlevel memory/hardware access to userland, which was the case on OpenBSD in the past. (Not sure how the situation is on other systems.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.177.85.182 (talk) 07:48, 16 October 2017‎ (UTC)[reply]

If necessary, you might bring this to the main OpenBSD article and talk page, since I have proposed this article for deletion. That way, it won't be redundant and we can focus on the main article for things like this. Tonystewart14 (talk) 17:54, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Suggestions for Improvement

LibreSSL is worth mentioning, being the project's own cryptography library, probably best under the cryptography heading; and it's worth mentioning the project's tendency to either simplify or create simplified replacements for existing complex programs, such as with signify instead of OpenPGP (already mentioned, but may be worth moving somewhere else in the article), doas instead of sudo, LibreSSL instead of OpenSSL, and maybe more examples I haven't thought about. 85.64.76.29 (talk) 13:54, 19 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]