On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:54:34PM +0300, J.C. wrote:
Are all future versions of Tor Browser Bundle going to have Vidalia permanently stripped?
Very likely yes. And replaced with Tor Launcher.
I'm running a stable relay on Linux with the TBB (and thus, Vidalia) instead of installing the Tor packages, and i quite like it this way.
Which Linux? If Debian or Ubuntu, you'll probably be much happier using the deb.
The deb starts at boot, and runs the Tor process as a separate user. Another huge feature of the deb is that it raises your "ulimit -n" (the number of sockets a process is allowed to have open) automatically. Unless it's tiny, a relay run from inside Vidalia is going to run into that problem pretty quickly.
I could try again but i'm a huge fan of the "if it's not broken, don't touch it" approach, and my relay works fantastic right now.
Which one is it? We can check its statistics to see if that's actually true. :)
Thanks, --Roger