From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 29 18:02:43 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CA9716A4E5 for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A297E43D4C for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:02:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so192638uge for ; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:02:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=pUv96WB1+25ECvkJH///87Xtzu+bK61VNogVJ0LexRn9YYRvISa0Hej/hqPcv5YoEjUc/KaB2kS+3+6D0GuybbqhHYKu4dmAL7Kk5koVtAV5C6irJsqXfj3Rz4N11h8XL3ZrA14TmLa88tl1nVuYsjyX8/e+hp8wvRaFVMOs3i4= Received: by 10.78.165.13 with SMTP id n13mr149760hue; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:02:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.11 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:02:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:02:40 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Atom Powers" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <20060728222430.V27679@ganymede.hub.org> Cc: core@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, User Freebsd Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:02:43 -0000 On 7/29/06, Atom Powers wrote: > On 7/28/06, User Freebsd wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Atom Powers wrote: > > > > > My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal > > > use. But of those there are maybe 2-3 that I would be ok with listing > > > and exactly zero that I will actually list. It's not that I don't want > > > to help, but I'm not going to run a process like that on a production > > > server. > > > > It is definitely your perogative, but I'm curious as to why not? You have > > the source code for the client, so its not some sort of 'spyware' that is > > sitting running on your machine ... > > > > The over riding question here is not "why not" but "why". A package > like this doesn't help the server run faster or better. It is another > piece of code that has to be audited and maintained. I take a very > minimalist approach to my systems. > It takes me 100milliseconds to ping www.freebsd.org. Even if you used FreeBSD for the rest of your natural life you would only use up 72 seconds of it. Is that not a good trade off for what we get in return? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/