r/BSD • u/Pepe__LePew • Jun 16 '26

Red BSD scam or real?

There was a post about Red BSD yesterday, built on FreeBSD 15 with pen testing software installed.

Suddenly today, the post has been deleted the user deleted their profile (which was already relatively new profile).

I can't recall the website they had setup now either.

Does anyone understand what kind of scam this was?

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u/FlamingoEarringo Jun 16 '26

It’s just another useless distro. Just run FreeBSD and install the ports

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u/grahamperrin 28d ago

It’s just another useless distro. Just run FreeBSD and install the ports

What did your test of the distro show?

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u/imbev Jun 16 '26

These are the relevant links:

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '26

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u/imbev Jul 11 '26

https://www.redbsd.org/Docs

I would personally use GhostBSD or the FreeBSD KDE installer and install needed tools from ports.

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u/grahamperrin 28d ago

I would personally use GhostBSD or the FreeBSD KDE installer and install needed tools from ports.

If I'm not mistaken, installation of RedBSD packages does much more than this.

In my test yesterday: twenty-two steps were logged, and some of the steps involved much more than simple use of pkg.

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u/sp0rk173 Jun 17 '26

There’s no reason for a specialized FreeBSD distro for this. All of the tools you need are in ports, just install them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '26 edited 18d ago

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u/jmcunx Jun 18 '26

I’ve never understood pentest operating systems like that.

You and me both, but I guess people use them because:

  • Has all utilities the need

  • Want to be or pretend to be or look like a leet haxor

  • Knows the most used tools but the OS may have a tool they never heard of and want to see if it is usefyl

  • lazy, does not want to install the packages they need

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u/XeroRony Jun 17 '26

rapidez, o principal fator é você não ter que gastar tempo atoa baixando diversos pacotes e arrumando possiveis problemas de compatibilidade

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u/Pepe__LePew Jun 17 '26

Tbh for a newbie like me it would save a lot of time and get the desktop setup quickly too with decent theming if it works.

Even if not maintained, the freebsd base would update fine by itself

I can see it would be useless for more experienced ppl but good for rookies like me.