[FUG-BR] Code Analysis Shows Low Number of Possible Bugs in FreeBSD

[Fabricio Lima]

On Tuesday, code-analysis software maker Coverity announced that its automated bug finding tool had analyzed the community-built operating system FreeBSD and flagged 306 potential software flaws, or about one issue for every 4,000 lines of code. The low number of flaws found by the system underscores that FreeBSD's manual auditing by project members has reduced the vulnerabilities in the operating system, said Seth Hallem, CEO of Coverity.

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11230


COMMENT by Anonymous:
In April 2004 Coverity analysed the Linux kernel: 

http://linuxbugs.coverity.com/linuxbugs.htm 

and found 935 bugs (vs 360 FreeBSD). 

Anyhow, the point is that open source software has a verifiably low number of bugs. This is great! 

"Many eyes" theory seems to be right
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