Re: [tor-relays] Debian relay Puppet module

On 06/17/2014 02:49 AM, Alex Jordan wrote:

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In my dream world, it would not only support Debian: Right now, most of the Tor network runs on Debian, which is not ideal. We need more *BSD and Solaris! And FreeDOS! :)

Why is this not ideal? I'm not following. Also, do you mean Debian or Debian-like? If the latter, Tor Cloud (Ubuntu) probably accounts for a fair bit of that inbalance.

If there's a problem with one implementation, an attacker can easily take over the parts that are based on that implementation. Diversity of relay operation systems helps against single points of failure (like the Debian OpenSSL issue, or even the 1.x Heartbleed).