[nylug-talk] Question for old school Unix Admins

[Martin A. Brown]

 : I've got to disagree with you Dale.

Whew!  (I'm glad you voiced disagreement, Peter.)  I was about to
weigh in on this (as a pro-djbware sympathizer)  earlier today, and
I restrained myself--mostly to avoid contributing to the outbreak of
a Holy War.  But now, I'll join in the fray with all four feet (on
the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog).

 : Rick's got a point on the licensing, but I disagree with everything
 : technical.

Yep.

 : DJB's software has challenged everyone to design and build
 : software to a higher standard, and he's a bloody academic.
 : Qmail is still the most reliable server out there.

Yep.

 : I'm rather dissapointed that Rick is even suggesting using inetd
 : instead of tcpserver.  The tcpserver model is a lot more robust then
 : inetd, especially in high volumes (I suspect that Rick's never had to
 : deal with inetd's self-throttling stupidity).

Yep.  That's the most nutso thing I had seen.  Hit inetd too hard,
and it turns itself off.  What?!?

 : The software is, bar none, of the highest quality.  The code is
 : readable and flexible.  Its changed how software on the internet
 : runs.

Yep.

So, let me add my voice to this well-articulated set of points
in support of DJB and djbware.

-Martin

[ who has been happily using qmail and ucspi-tcp since 1998,
  daemontools since 1999, clockspeed since 1999, and djbdns since
  2001. ]