Re: [tor-relays] OS diversity of tor relays (was Re: Relay uptime versus outdated Tor version)

2017-08-19 Thread Scott Bennett
Zack Weinberg wrote: > Relay diversity and client diversity are two different things. Last I heard People who run relays usually started out as people running clients. They liked tor and decided to help out by running a relay, *too*. Do you really believe they would choose to install some

Re: [tor-relays] OS diversity of tor relays (was Re: Relay uptime versus outdated Tor version)

2017-08-19 Thread Zack Weinberg
Relay diversity and client diversity are two different things. Last I heard it was a bad idea to run a relay on the same computer as a client, so I don't think Tor Browser for server OSes like Solaris is a great use of developer effort. Windows is certainly the highest-value target for client dive

Re: [tor-relays] OS diversity of tor relays (was Re: Relay uptime versus outdated Tor version)

2017-08-19 Thread Duncan
Firstly, a note of caution: I am not affiliated with the Tor project. Scott Bennett: Duncan wrote: In theory hot-patching kernels is a great idea. However, they're technically not loading a new kernel. Something like kexec in theory lets one load a new kernel. Furthermore, these hot-patchin

[tor-relays] OS diversity of tor relays (was Re: Relay uptime versus outdated Tor version)

2017-08-19 Thread Scott Bennett
Duncan wrote: > In theory hot-patching kernels is a great idea. > > However, they're technically not loading a new kernel. Something like > kexec in theory lets one load a new kernel. > > Furthermore, these hot-patching programs usually only support Linux. If > we want to increase the diversity