I've been spending a lot of time with debian lately (etch + lenny mostly), and some things are starting to irk me.
They would probably irk me about ubuntu too if I were using that distro for the same reasons (if not more so which is why debian) Why the hell does bittorrent deserve a startup script? In 2008 is there a reason I would want to run inetd? And NFS was nice when disks were scarce, but should machines that may not be able to trust their routing or switching fabric be communicating using unencrypted block network protocols? I'm figuring out how to do debian installations with only those packages I want and so on, but sometimes it's useful to start from a stock install, and it's annoying to turn off so much crap in the default installation. I guess my grouchy view is that in 2008 you should be using cryptographically authenticated protocols. Hell, I'd be in favour of requiring my mailservers and every other mailserver out there to only talk to mailservers that had a certificate signed by a mutually trusted third party like the post-office or an insurance company that promised to pay up for spam. //this sysadmin rant was brought to you by too much coffee and not enough sleep. l8r _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
