Could BSD become a desktop OS one day?

Question

I realize Linux is a great operating system for desktop computing as well as server side, BSD is more secure and better suited to servers as of today.

I am thinking about the possibility of this platform being used for secure and private desktop computing, like Qubes and Subgraph.

To put this into perspective, according to the exploit db, only 92 vulnerabilities have ever been found in BSD while Linux has had 2535.

With that said, is there potential for a reliable BSD Desktop operating system?

Answer 1

Bsd has desktop os

Answer 2

I see, my issue is that BSD is not very reliable in the sense of software availability, due to a proportionally scarce community compared to linux.

I think BSD would be a good replacement for Linux in privacy and security focused desktop computing because of its reduced surface area for attack, not just because of its low demand for attack but because at its core it is built for security. This is evident in its track record of resistance against exploitation.

For instance in 2006 their was a paper published on VMBRs(Virtual Machine Based Rootkits), a VMBR is a type of malware that isolates the user in a Virtual Machine seamlessly, thwarting antivirus solutions.

Although this type of malware is applicable to all platforms, A payload for BSD would be painstakingly harder to craft.

Such malware would have to take advantage of a privilege escalation exploit in BSD, such a exploit has not been found in the BSD kernel for almost a decade.

Do you think it just needs more work, or is it built just for servers?