Because alpha tends to be pretty stable with tor, and the latest security fixes are in alpha a lot sooner.
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 13, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Steve Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > On 01/13/2012 05:27 AM, Sebastian Hahn wrote: >> Ah, I see. ides not having a current consensus is different from ides >> being down. Ides still is running the stable Tor version and needs to be >> upgraded to 0.2.3.x to be allowed to vote along with the other dirauths, >> so it doesn't immediately know about the new consensus. I don't know >> when ides will be upgraded, but I hope the answer is soon. > > Why do the authorities run an Alpha version of Tor instead of the (presumably > less buggy) latest Stable version? > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
