# Recommend HardenedBSD?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/recommend-hardenedbsd/25342
**Category:** Tool Suggestions
**Created:** 2025-02-28T12:29:42Z
**Posts:** 4

## Post 1 by @What_a_Guy — 2025-02-28T12:29:42Z

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### Website

> **[HardenedBSD](https://hardenedbsd.org/)**

### Short description

A hardened fork of FreeBSD.

### Why I think this tool should be added

It seems to be a suitable security and privacy-focused operating system. Additionaly, in David Bombal’s [How to be Invisible Online (and the hard truth about it)…](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEbAxsYRMcQ) At 46:40, Occupy The Web (OTW) suggests Subgraph OS.

### Section on Privacy Guides

Operating Systems

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## Post 2 by @anonymous289 — 2025-02-28T12:31:34Z

because bsd has extremely poor hardware support

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## Post 3 by @KevPham — 2025-02-28T16:19:09Z

BSDs are interesting OSes for sure. I think you should include more stronger reasons for their inclusion.

Also, Subgraph OS already has [its own proposal](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/thoughts-on-subgraph-os/25343) and has been rejected. I also advise against following videos from YouTube creators like David Bombal. They tend to sensationalize these topics.

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## Post 4 by @anonfox — 2025-04-07T12:32:07Z

> **[Why don't browsers use sandbox on FreeBSD?](https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/why-dont-browsers-use-sandbox-on-freebsd.71664/)**
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> Firefox gives a message right after the installation, saying that some of the components are not available because they had needed backends. One of them is the sandbox.
> Although it doesn't give any message, chromium or iridium doesn't have any...

Should be the same on HardenedBSD