[tor-relays] Future versions and Vidalia?

[Jesse Victors]

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> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:54:34 +0300
> From: "J.C." <jc80 at riseup.net>
> To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
> Subject: [tor-relays] Future versions and Vidalia?
> Message-ID: <52400FDA.2060309 at riseup.net>
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> Are all future versions of Tor Browser Bundle going to have Vidalia
> permanently stripped? 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. I don't remember what exactly went wrong, but some
> months ago i tried to get a relay running by installing and configuring
> it with the terminal and failed miserably, even though i was following
> instructions to the letter. 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.
>
> If Vidalia is going to be permanently dropped at some point, is there
> any other way to continue running a relay than the terminal? I had a
> look at TBBv3 and didn't find a way to enable relaying.
I'm in exactly the same boat. I would _highly_ recommend that the
current TBB stay exactly the way it is. I'm against having a ton of
services start up by themselves. As a Linux user, I enjoy having the
power to control what I start things up, and when. Sometimes I start my
computer and I don't want certain things to start. The disadvantage of
having a service install is that I lose much of that control. I too have
tried to set up a Tor relay via packages and such, and I also failed.
The TBB was orders of magnitude easier: I just click "configure relay"
and things work fine. Vidalia is also extremely easy to use, and I like
the interface. I would advise that the dev team reconsider.

Jesse V.

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