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Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, David Naylor <naylor.b.david@gmail.com>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and User Security
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>
> But it is far from moot if you are interested in the actual threat against 
> your system.  In a sense, using a less popular OS is a form of "security by 
> obscurity" which is not to be heavily relied on, but still it does make a 
> real, practical, difference in the case that you described.

FreeBSD is "unfortunately" quite popular OS, but yes - much less popular 
than linux, not to mention windoze.