[tor-talk] development interests

[David Green]

Uh, thanks, I guess.  I was only asking for pointers and advice, etc, and
do much work myself, not to consume anyone else's precious time...  I mean,
realise they (or you) could be 'saving the world', or some such, by helping
a bleeding-edge, essential OS.  ;-)

Red Hat or Centos and or Debian; yes they do and have appealed, alas I have
a perfectly good and secure OS X Tiger -- which I have no reason to
upgrade... <SCREECH> Oops, I have wasted time defending myself before, so I
will not.

No, I wish to do this predominately myself (with some pointers and advice),
I am not looking to stop others climate modelling or genetic interference
stuff.

Thanks again for the advice, scarp.


On 26 September 2013 01:22, scarp <scarp at riseup.net> wrote:

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> David Green:
> > Hello, I am an Ex 'low-level' programmer (assembler, C and C++) of
> > many years back -- well, nothing amazing -- officially some ~13
> > years ago, due to a head injury.
> >
>
> Then you should be able to figure it out yourself. You probably won't
> get much help here as MacOSX Tiger users represent such a small market
> share.
>
> Given that Apple don't spend any time on it the tools used to build
> Tor probably won't either. It might work in theory, but don't expect
> support. That is why it is called an "unsupported" operating system.
>
> I'd rather not see the Tor Project or anyone else waste time with
> unsupported operating systems. There are better things you could be
> doing with your time.
>
> If you need anonymity then you also need security. Using a system that
> has outstanding/unknown unresolved CVEs doesn't sound like a good idea
> if you want to keep your anonymity.
>
> If you want to be particularly conservative about updates your best
> bet is to use something like RHEL/Centos or Debian. Those usually have
> a life cycle of around 10 years.
>
> At the end of this year or so RHEL/Centos 7 will be out and that will
> be probably supported until 2030 or thereabouts.
>
> - --
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