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No, the backbone of the internet is not maintained with patches sent in emails.
by weisk 5y ago
No, the backbone of the internet is not maintained with patches sent in emails.
- chiluk 5y agohttps://lkml.org/ https://lkml.org/
- chiluk 5y agoYou are very wrong about that https://lkml.org/ https://lkml.org/
- cbarrick 5y agoClearly you and the person you replied to are talking about very different things.
- chiluk 5y agoYou are very wrong about that ;) https://lkml.org/ https://lkml.org/
- _joel 5y agoI think the sub-comment is confusing the linux kernel with BGP.
- nacs 5y agoIn a way, the Linux kernel does power the "backbones of the internet".
- _joel 5y agoThere are a hell of a lot of non-linux OS's running on core routers, but yes, in a way. However BGP isn't via email.
- dsr_ 5y agoOn the other hand, I and my office mate at the time negotiated the setup of a ridiculous number of BGP sessions over email, including sending configs. That was 20 years ago.
- NexRebular 5y agoluckily not... would be absolutely terrible to have the backbone only on linux
- dsr_ 5y agoInteroperability and a thriving ecosystem are necessities for resiliency. Note that resiliency and efficiency are often working against each other.