Another point that no one seems to have raised about ftp/http support: It would seem to me that if empeg put either of those tools on the developer image, than they would be providing a method for retrieving mp3's from the unit.

From what I gather, RIAA would not like that much.

Also, as was pointed out above, not everyone wants the same version of ftpd/telnetd/httpd, etc. i.e. the Washington University FTP daemon is the most popular one availble for Linux, yet some versions have security holes. The last thing I want is my empeg to get rooted by a script kiddie, because it was running an ftpd with a buffer overflow security hole in it (you guys getting tired of me mentioning this yet? )

I personally detest vi as an editor, and just never bothered to learn emacs, even though I should. I have been happy with pico and joe as editors. Out of those four choices, we couldn't ask empeg to put them all on there. I wouldn't want two of them, and would just end up deleting them.

I agree that if you want to be a hacker, you should have to work for it. It may make it easier to compile a program, but there's not much learning going on.

-Trevor

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