Hi, I'm not sure i trust allbsd.org, such as their site has last updated at 2005.
Sami On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, O. Hartmann < ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > On 12/20/11 10:01, Christer Solskogen wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 2:16 PM, Alexander Yerenkow <yeren...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> FreeBSD currently have very obscure, closed community. To get in touch, > you > >> need to subscribe to several mail lists, constantly read them, I've just > >> found recently (my shame of course) in mail list that there is service ( > >> pub.allbsd.org) which constantly building current versions. This is > great, > >> but at homepage of freebsd.org there is no word about it :) > > > > That's because it's not official. Do you take the risk? Would a > > multi-milion-dollar company do that? > > For your private server, sure it's probably fine. But how do you know > > that those files are not contaminated? > > (That being said, the purpose of that service is good. And the files > > there a most probably 100% fine. But if it's not official... then..) > > > > Well, then, FreeBSD is with priority for multi-million-euro companies? > > No one knows whether those companies like Suse or similar are not > undermined by the US agencies or those from Telaviv. What about > Microsoft and its funny Zero-Day bugs? Do you trust that company, which > does not give any insight in its code? This shit is even more widespread > in governments, agencies and defence than "real" traitors. > > Even a multi-million-what-so-ever has to decide on their own what to > get, where to get it from and this is obviously not argument NOT giving > such valuable informations the community at hand like pub.allbsd.org. > > For years outdated stuff from a Period when freeBSD 4.X outperformed the > Linux crap is sometimes still present on the FreeBSD pages (luckily, > those has gone after a load of discussion). > > -- Sami Halabi Information Systems Engineer NMS Projects Expert _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
