CheriBSD

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Overview

HEALTH SCORE

Excellent*

Partial score (2/3 categories)

58out of 65

Strong maintainer coverage. Development cadence is the only remaining gap. Security & Supply Chain is unavailable, so weights were redistributed.

LIFECYCLE

Active

Consistent commits, responsive maintainers, regular releases, and healthy issue triage.

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Health breakdown

Excellent*(58/65)

Maintainer availability, known risks and supply chain posture, and whether the project is actively developed or appropriately stable.

Maintainer responsiveness

Median response time is 1 day.

Bus factor

12 active maintainers currently have merge rights.

Organization Diversity

Contributors span 42 organizations.

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About

CheriBSD is a modified version of FreeBSD that adds support for CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructions) memory protection and software compartmentalization features. It provides a complete operating system environment with CHERI capability support integrated throughout the kernel and userspace

First commit

June 1993

Software value

$1.1B