14.0-RELEASE some time in 2023, I guess.
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So in 14.0, graphics/drm-kmod is becoming part of base?
Hm, not so far... Maybe they mean the kernel bits to support Linux DRM?
That doesn't bode well for the operating system itself which is also pretty old
Age is no indicator of quality or lack of it.
True, but being old doesn't automatically mean it's good.
Yes and you replied before I finished editing my comment agreeing with that. But any attempts to remove something based on age alone is misguided.
sendmail has nothing to do with whether you want mail or not. Most systems, if not all, have some built in method for sending you mail or alerts of some sort.
Yes, you're right. But removing something because it's bloated, insecure and complex is justified.
Yes. But honestly, who reads that mail? I don't.
xxx@xxx:~$ mail
Command 'mail' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install mailutilsMethinks there are many who will disagree with your opinion of sendmail.
I do but neither of us represent the thousands of others who use it and I'd bet most of them do.
Let's not bring up Linux faults in this thread.
And many agree, see for example https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-to-stop-sendmail-100.79186/ or the abundance of tutorials on how to disable sendmail you find with Google.
Yes, we can only speak for ourselves.
Sorry, i can see that this may be disturbing.
If you have ever used a desktop environment that pops up with a notification that your download is done, you have new hardware added, etc.. This is effectively the same thing.
www.securityspace.com
Server Type Number of Servers Percent
Exim 291,497 60.25%
Postfix 158,999 32.86%
Sendmail 17,252 3.57%Yes. A quick count shows nine copies of
sendmail running across both Linux and FreeBSD hosts, and that's just the ones I use personally. smartcheck from cron and read the emails. The alternative is to let my systems fail hard. Sendmail is certainly complex, but it addresses a complex task. I am not aware of any broad-scale security issues, and the complexity issues are largely obfuscated for the casual user with pre-prepared configurations (change a couple of lines in freebsd.mc, and run make). I must admit that I would consider using postfix for a greenfield. However I am completely certain that sendmail furnishes functionality in esoteric circumstances where others would struggle. So I hope and expect it will endure.Yes, not every mail server responds with a banner to be identified.
But there is a good chance that these aren't sendmail.
Yes, it is, at best, a few percent of Mail eXchangers on the Internet -- and there would be a great deal more Mail eXchangers hiding inside private networks.