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r* Programs Being Removed from OpenBSD -current

Posted by timothy on from the but-it's-still-an-important-letter dept.

moonboy writes: "This post over at OpenBSD Journal tells of the r* programs (rsh, rlogin, rcopy, etc) being removed from the -current tree. Can Telnet and FTP be far behind? I say good riddance."

3 of 139 comments (clear)

  1. Fucking summarize by linzeal · · Score: 0, Troll
    Perl removed , r* removed, blah blah blah

    What the fuck is this play by play?

    --
    An Education is the Font of All Liberty
  2. Interesting discussion by braddeicide · · Score: 0, Troll

    I find it rather humorous that posts in recent BSD discussions never get a score above 2.

    Where are all the Insightful, Informative comments? Are all the bright people are waiting to see what BSD does before commenting? So even the egg heads amongst us aren't sure about BSDs latest happenings.

    Brad.

  3. A very dumb idea by boltar · · Score: 2, Troll

    No one in their right mind would use one of the
    r* tools or telnet to access a box across the
    internet. However , for internal connections withing a large organisation they are *vital*.
    Anyone who has worked in a large unix shop (I work in a multinational bank) knows that rlogin
    and telnet are used all the time to access the various servers over the LAN and VPN , rsh is also
    used to do a shell script type of RPC. Getting rid of these tools demonstrates what I've always
    thought about OpenBSD , its just a toy to amuse
    Theo thats not really aiming at the high end market but rather just as a web server or other
    ISP type role. Fine , if thats what they want but
    it'll hardly make much difference as their user base is so small it hardly registers anyway.
    Bye bye OpenBSD.