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next question: why are people still using putty
Because Windows does not have a good SSH implementation and PuTTY has always worked extremely well for me as a serial and SSH terminal (also, it starts up instantly and never crashed on me). Are there any better alternatives?
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HAProxy is a wonderful load balancer that doesn't serve static files thus forcing many of us to learn Nginx to fill the static-file-serving scenarios. Caddy seems like a wonderful alternative that does load balancing and static file serving but has wild config file formats for people coming from Apache/Nginx-land.
> but has wild config file formats for people coming from Apache/Nginx-land. stockholm syndrome
[0] https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/depth/ifis...
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We (F5) published two CVEs today against NGINX+ & NGINX OSS. Maxim was against us assigning CVEs to these issues. F5 is a CNA and follows CVE program rules and guidelines, and we will err on the side of security and caution. We felt there was a risk to customers/users and it warranted a CVE, he did not.
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To me it seems like a very simple disagreement with policies, and because the implications of the decision that was made and the impact it has to the agreed relationships.
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Not that scary when you remember there are some systems that haven't been significantly updated for decades (e.g. the Linux TTY interface). A lot of stuff can just coast indefinitely, you'll get quirks but people will find workarounds. Also this is kind of why everything is ever so slightly broken, IMHO.
That only helps if it stays static. For example, if the Linux TTY interface was unchanged for decades to such a degree that nobody worked on it, but then had a vulnerability, who would be able to fix it quickly?
It is scary to think about how much of web relies on projects maintained by 1 or 2 people.
It's not that scary. If a project everyone depends on is broken and unmaintained, someone else will manufacture a replacement fairly quickly and people will vote with their feet. NGINX is the de facto standard today, but I can remember running servers off apache when I began professionally programming. I remember writing basic cross-broweser spas with script.aculous, and prototypejs in 2005, before bundlers and react…
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next question: why are people still using putty
Because Windows does not have a good SSH implementation and PuTTY has always worked extremely well for me as a serial and SSH terminal (also, it starts up instantly and never crashed on me). Are there any better alternatives?
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Because Windows does not have a good SSH implementation and PuTTY has always worked extremely well for me as a serial and SSH terminal (also, it starts up instantly and never crashed on me). Are there any better alternatives?
Many people I know just use SSH from the WSL CLI.
Given this fork still boasts a 2-clause BSD license, the corporate nginx can still make the effort to backport patches. It's certainly harder than requiring a single converged development branch, but how closely they track Maxim's work is ultimately up to them. If nginx continues to receive more attention from security researchers, I imagine Maxim will have good reasons to backport fixes the other way too, or at leas…
I'm curious to see where this fork will go. The whole situation is a mess: - nginx is "open core", with some useful features in the proprietary version. - angie (a fork by several core devs) has a CLA, which sounds like a bait and switch waiting to happen and distro's won't package it - freenginx is at least open source. But who knows if it'll still be around by June.
I had been an Apache user for quite some time, and thought I'd take a look at the (at that point, a few years old) "new" shiny thing. I found that something as simple as LDAP authentication required a payed plugin; a free Apache module has been available for this for ages. That made nginx a non-starter for this particular use case.
I wonder if the fork will accumulate free plugins for things that the old core required payed plugins for, slowly eroding their business case.
There is no news other than this individual post. I wish he could describe it more. It says it is free but where is the github page for it?
> It says it is free but where is the github page for it? Not sure if serious, but you do realise that free is not at all about having a GitHub page? Maxim has been working on nginx for years and just forked the project so that he can continue working on it. The license remains the same as the original nginx project and you can already download its sources here: https://freenginx.org/en/download.html
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next question: why are people still using putty
Putty met my needs in 2004 and my needs haven't changed. It still works as good in 2024. I'm not 100% sure when I started using putty, but I definitely used it in 2004. I still need a ssh client and terminal emulator for Windows. I still don't want to install a unix like environment just to have a terminal. I still don't want tabs in my terminal, lots of windows works just fine. I still need X11 forwarding so I can r…
(But yeah I'm still using putty, too)