Clearly you underestimate the technical debt for both hardware and software technologies, still very much in use today. Luke Crooks Solent Wholesale Carpets On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, 17:58 Robert Simmons, <rsimmons0 at gmail.com> 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. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security at freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe at freebsd.org > " >
I am and am not. Ubuntu has made this choice recently. I doubt I am alone in my thinking. I fully expected instant pushback on both suggestions. On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, 13:29 Luke Crooks <luke at solentwholesale.com> wrote:> Clearly you underestimate the technical debt for both hardware and > software technologies, still very much in use today. > > > > Luke Crooks > Solent Wholesale Carpets > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, 17:58 Robert Simmons, <rsimmons0 at gmail.com> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-security at freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-security-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" >> >
On July 24, 2019 10:29:12 AM PDT, Luke Crooks <luke at solentwholesale.com> wrote:>Clearly you underestimate the technical debt for both hardware and >software >technologies, still very much in use today. > > > >Luke Crooks >Solent Wholesale Carpets > >On Wed, 24 Jul 2019, 17:58 Robert Simmons, <rsimmons0 at gmail.com> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-security at freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-security-unsubscribe at freebsd.org >> " >> >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-security at freebsd.org mailing list >https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-security-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"Ahh, the latest rowhammer attack, rambled. Avoid the use of RAM. -- Pardon the typos and autocorrect, small keyboard in use. Cheers, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy at FreeBSD.org> Web: http://www.FreeBSD.org The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.