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I don't think it has any benefit if you're installing software exclusively that you built yourself on your own targets, or from a distro package manager. But it
by mikepurvis 6y ago
I don't think it has any benefit if you're installing software exclusively that you built yourself on your own targets, or from a distro package manager. But it's potentially a boon for a whole class of statically-linked rescue tools, installers, command-line utilities — basically anything where there's a website with a curl path/to/thing > local/bin/thing installation option.
- CydeWeys 6y agoIt also makes manually downloaded software distribution easier. Rather than the user having to select which version of the software to download (which users often get wrong), or trying to guess based on browser user-agent, there's just the one download link that works on everything.
- sirius87 6y agoAnd malware. I don't know why that popped into my mind as the first use-case for this and the web server. :|