On 05/05/2010 09:35 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
With the latest improvements in the chrony package related to NetworkManager and name resolving I think it is now good enough to replace ntpd in the default configuration and the configurations supported by system-config-date.
Strong NO vote.
Replacing a robust and mature package with an immature one which may have security issues (in fact has had recently) should not be taken lightly.
The prime motivation of this project is a use case of intermittent internet connections of 5 mins a day.
I seriously doubt that is the common use case for majority of fedora users.
I think this is a terrible idea.
gene/
PS: Aside - I also dont understand the motivation to start again and reimplement the wheel all over again ... and not take advantage of a mature product and work to improve ntpd or enhance it.