Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

[Nikolas Britton]

On 7/29/06, Atom Powers <atom.powers at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/28/06, User Freebsd <freebsd at 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?


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