Not really, no. I was referring to the practice of starting a gazillion
services by default, including dbus, avahi, ftp and http services,
file sharing components, and all the rest of the stuff that is now
commonly installed as part of a "Linux desktop".  SELinux is indeed
one form of hardening, but I wasn't referring specifically to it; exactly
the opposite, in fact.

Without running unneeded things there is no need to "harden".
In spite of FreeBSD having quite a lot of extra security features, i don't really use more than standard unix security and jails, it is not really needed.

FreeBSD do this (almost) right - default rc.conf doesn't ruch much, but still too much. no idea why inetd is run by default, with no services but anyway.
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