Windows has a very significant percentage of the server market share, and more attention should be focused on this part of the Tor Server development. Right now, itâs a very complicated install/config on a Windows OS which is disappointing and prevents greater adoption (the end goal of Tor is greater adoption to increase privacy). Windows sysadmin arenât used to tweaking config files and the posted documentation isnât good (repeated requested for me to update have gone unanswered). If donating to the project to promote Tor on Windows existed, I would. I have been donating to EFF for many years, but decided more âactionâ was needed. I still donate to them. Also, Iâm a member of EFF, so maybe you didnât understand my email since I donât know what you meant by âthrow a shadeâ. EFF is not related to Tor, so I think youâre a bit confused on that. EFF is focused on electronic freedoms (e.g. free speech, fair use, privacy, etc) and theyâve been promoting people (what Iâve seen in the USA) to adopt and add Tor relays (hence I added Tor relays (middle + exit). EFF and Tor are not connected. EFF is merely promoting Tor relay adoption. https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/ -Ben From: Magnus Hedemark [mailto:magnus.hedemark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] I think it's unfair to characterize the Tor community as a Linux club, or religious about operating systems. There is a whole big world of operating systems out there, and most (not all) have a very POSIX flavor to them that makes it pretty easy to generalize advice on running the service. The work that I'm doing right now is around packaging Tor for OmniOS (and writing doc around using them together), which is pretty obscure and has no relationship to Linux. There's definitely software out there that assumes you're building it on Linux, running it on Linux, but Tor is definitely not one of them. Windows is the only really prominent OS that I can think of off the top of my head that has no significant POSIX flavor to it. Its heritage is more from DOS and VMS than anything. It's an odd bird for people who otherwise work in POSIX platforms all of the time. Be thankful Tor runs there at all. Supporting Windows on a cross-platform app is no small feat. If you're really dedicated to running a big Tor relay, and can't be bothered to help improve the documentation for Windows relay operators, time to learn a new tool and maybe not be so religious about running Windows for all the things? I think I've got 5 different OS's that I'm managing right now. No big deal. That's the beauty of the other side of the Windows fence. Once you learn one, it's easy to learn the rest. -M Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland.
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