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Very difficult to do so as anyone can create (and distros do) a customized kernel and userland with severally different compiling options.

OpenSSL vs LibreSSL, Glibc vs Musl, X11 vs Arcan (or just the framebuffer/KMS), and so on.

Also, on exploits realize Linux and BSD run in devices very different from X86 right? NetBSD today runs even on Alpha, and 0days won't work with ease there.

Even more with the new RISC-V arches here.



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