Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2021 22:11:37 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> To: aventador@fastmail.fm, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deprecating base system ftpd? Message-ID: <c163426c-a78b-8242-fe11-04fe59014b14@grosbein.net> In-Reply-To: <3be2b1b4-dbcc-4429-ad31-f56246ae9a30@www.fastmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2AbP2X339zbemZ9Y8edjNKdyygnR9mH48Q78nxwDtOBAg@mail.gmail.com> <6051E091-200B-4A7F-9A53-86652425BBB6@punkt.de> <22c50a6-7c2c-3fc0-bd5f-42a0ba624c3@io-tx.com> <CAD=vH50r%2BprbhMg=5AeZZGyOuC2Jd8bdZ7YbLopBnr8jpkc6Yg@mail.gmail.com> <3be2b1b4-dbcc-4429-ad31-f56246ae9a30@www.fastmail.com>
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06.04.2021 15:37, aventador@fastmail.fm wrote: > Deprecating base system ftpd does seem to be a good idea, especially for FreeBSD users wanting to use their computer > as a workstation/desktop instead of as a server. I think the argument becomes, "who is our target audience?" > If the target audience is both server and desktop users, then minimizing the base system makes a lot of sense. Stock ftpd is single file /usr/libexec/ftpd sized 112KBytes uncompressed (71KB compressed with ZFS lz4 online compression) and this is less than MAXPHYS=128K in current FreeBSD releases. Minimizing the base system makes it another kind of Linux instead of solid operating system we love.help
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