RE: Old Stuff
"Wall, Stephen" <[email protected]>
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> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Aaron C. de Bruyn via freebsd- > security > Subject: Re: Old Stuff > >On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 9:58 AM Robert Simmons <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and remove all >> of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and safer. >> >> In this same vein, let's deprecate and remove things like telnet and ftp. > > Why remove telnet and FTP? Why not? It's not difficult to install ftp as needed from the ports tree - there are a number of clients and servers available there, including a newer version of tnftp, which is what appears in freebsd base. I can't imagine it would be very difficult to migrate the base telnet to ports, either. It'd be a bit less cruft in the base system that has to be maintained. That applies to tftp as well. Unless the base system is actually using any of them. I don't know that. > From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Igor Mozolevsky > Subject: Re: Old Stuff > > On Wednesday, 24 July 2019, Robert Simmons wrote: > > I wonder if FreeBSD should drop support for 32bit? Clean out and remove all > > of it. It should make the code base easier to maintain, cleaner, and safer. > > Because nobody has a 32bit computer nowadays??? Similarly, you got any > empirical evidence to back up the "... safer" part of your speculation? I have to agree with Igor here - there are still 32-bit SOCs out there intended for embedded use. It's likely there are commercial users of FreeBSD developing for those platforms. -spw _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"