Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:29:16 +0000 From: "Wall, Stephen" <stephen.wall@redcom.com> To: "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Old Stuff Message-ID: <a396546c23af4fdebef755a6a34dbc74@exch-02.redcom.com> In-Reply-To: <CAEE%2BrGptj5kotbf3dDGd3p=KJeEPWjhYsvodeyi2UXji=8JHbQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BQLa9DnEmC0fK81rHGCsuextpN%2BUjMbraUFKBz0DYeDbz%2BTjg@mail.gmail.com> <CAEE%2BrGptj5kotbf3dDGd3p=KJeEPWjhYsvodeyi2UXji=8JHbQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> From: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > security@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Aaron C. de Bruyn via freebsd- > security > Subject: Re: Old Stuff >=20 >On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 9:58 AM Robert Simmons <rsimmons0@gmail.com> wrote= : > >> I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and remove = all >> of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and saf= er. >> >> In this same vein, let's deprecate and remove things like telnet and ftp= . > > Why remove telnet and FTP? Why not? It's not difficult to install ftp as needed from the ports tree = - there are a number of clients and servers available there, including a ne= wer version of tnftp, which is what appears in freebsd base. I can't imagi= ne it would be very difficult to migrate the base telnet to ports, either. = It'd be a bit less cruft in the base system that has to be maintained. Th= at applies to tftp as well. Unless the base system is actually using any of them. I don't know that. > From: owner-freebsd-security@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > security@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Igor Mozolevsky > Subject: Re: Old Stuff >=20 > On Wednesday, 24 July 2019, Robert Simmons wrote: > > I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and remove= all > > of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and sa= fer. >=20 > Because nobody has a 32bit computer nowadays??? Similarly, you got any > empirical evidence to back up the "... safer" part of your speculation? I have to agree with Igor here - there are still 32-bit SOCs out there inte= nded for embedded use. It's likely there are commercial users of FreeBSD de= veloping for those platforms. -spw
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