[ale] Fedora grousing

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 10/23/2013 11:48 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Try to use Ruby on Rails and not use bleeding-edge!  Whenever you create
> a new app it wants to pull down all the most current gems possible.

I shut down my Redmine server because of Ruby.  Too big, too heavy, and 
always pulling on the server resources.  Any application that requires 
300 MB of working set when idle does NOT belong on my network.  I get 
that modern systems have a lot more resources than previous ones did, 
but it seems we've forgotten our roots and come to lean on resources to 
somehow compensate for our lack of drive to create efficient systems.

For that matter, try auditing that crap.  I mean, seriously.  I can 
audit a C application /far/ more easily than I can audit PHP, Python, 
Perl, Parrot, CLR, or Ruby applications.  Why?  Because C programmers 
don't have time to pull in extra junk, and so you can actually audit the 
system.

(Of course, I'm not talking about things like the Linux kernel, which I 
could never hope to audit.  More things like a custom-built server 
daemon which needs to be reviewed.)

     --- Mike

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