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154: Myths, Pi’s & Features, oh my!

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This week on BSDNow, we are taking a look at a few different tutorials, including running your very own RPi web-server. (Come-on, you This episode was brought to you by Headlines broken features aren't used (http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/broken-features-arent-used) This post from TedU talks about the difficulty of removing features from an operating system “One of the difficulties in removing a feature is identifying all the potential users. A feature here could be a program bundled with an operating system, or a command line option, or maybe just a function in a library. If we remove a feature, users that depend on it will be sad. Unfortunately, absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I’ve never heard of anybody running ls -p but it’s not impossible that somebody does.” “The reasons why we want to remove an existing feature can vary. Sometimes it’s old code that interferes with maintenance. Sometimes a nearly complete rewrite can improve performance. In other cases, the feature in question is