Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 13:02:40 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Atom Powers" <atom.powers@gmail.com> Cc: core@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> Subject: Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there? Message-ID: <ef10de9a0607291102o183a983fj6e6c3429899ae82d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <df9ac37c0607290931ma79941dv6352ca8326b36c0@mail.gmail.com> References: <20060728164526.E27679@ganymede.hub.org> <df9ac37c0607281319s5da0f64ese5fa57df1ef11a4d@mail.gmail.com> <20060728222430.V27679@ganymede.hub.org> <df9ac37c0607290931ma79941dv6352ca8326b36c0@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 7/29/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/28/06, User Freebsd <freebsd@hub.org> 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/
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?ef10de9a0607291102o183a983fj6e6c3429899ae82d>