Journal repruhsent's Journal: Ubuntu Officially Sucks. 2
So I installed Ubuntu 6.06.1 on a machine around here recently, mostly because I need TeX for some stuff I'm doing and MiKTeX on XP seems to butcher some of the stuff I throw at it. Anyway, I noticed that the default install of Ubuntu now has a BitTorrent tracker running on it.
Didn't Microsoft used to get in trouble for doing stuff like this? Everyone praises several Linux distributions for shipping with no services running by default; Mac OS X is the same way. But, there it was - I could connect to the machine on port 6969 with Firefox and I had a nice web page stating how the tracker wasn't tracking any files. The best part is how if you navigate to
The fact of the matter is that even if this isn't tracking anything, it's still pretty stupid. I would think that if you were going to ship with a service enabled, something like OpenSSH would be a little better, since it's much more secure. I don't know a whole lot about the security record of torrent trackers but I imagine it's not as good as that of OpenSSH. Besides, if it isn't tracking any files by default (it would be clever to track an ISO of the distribution), what's the point of enabling it by default?
Anyway, I'm not sure if this is insecure or not, and I don't really care. In the interests of full disclosure they should mention this during the install, but they do not. So, I've determined that Ubuntu sucks - I didn't like the crappy default brown theme, the stupid drums on the GDM screen, or the ugly IMHO startup screen anyway. I'm looking for a new distribution. Gentoo is way too labor intensive, so I won't be running that again. I'm thinking of giving Slackware a try, but it always seems to me to be somewhat osbolete in its package choice. Any suggestions?
Sounds like FreeBSD (Score:1)
This sounds much like FreeBSD and Sendmail. Even if you turn the insecure Sendmail "off", it still runs connected to localhost. I had to find it in the startup scripts to keep it from loading.