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No More FTP At Debian (debian.org)

Posted by msmash on from the out-of-fashion dept.

New submitter Gary Perkins writes: It looks like anonymous FTP is officially on its way out. While many public repositories have deprecated it in favor of HTTP, I was rather surprised to see Debian completely drop it on their public site. In a blog post, the team cited the FTP's lack of support for caching or acceleration, and declining usage as some of the reasons for their decision.

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  1. Re:Network admins rejoice! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Correct, FTP was never intended to transport files.