On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> That is because there are lot of ipv4 hardwares but ipv4 will >> eventually fade out. This is applicable to all the technologies. >> When new things come up old techs don't just vanish, they need >> time to fade out. > > with the ubiquity of IPv4 in the past, de facto cycle is long unless > we discard IPv4 de jure.Its like twisted pair replacement by fiber in > access networks. >
Fibers are damn costly as a replacement. >> Do you think guys at google, facebook etc. are idiots to use linux on >> their servers? > > We have not talked much of 'servers' here. Ibrahim Haddad says - we > intend to give competition to 'Solaris'. That's evident with these > 'servers'. > So where we talking about these OSes on desktops. When did Ibrahim hadad say this ? early 2000s ? Well that was the case back then not now. Ask NYSE why did they move to Linux from Solaris. > As Ashish said, BSD probably falls short of human resource w.r.t. > Linux. That may be the only reason why BSD may not be able to address > certain issues. > What else do you need ? > Its a matter of eyeballs only. > > >> Infact Marshall Kirk Mckusick has written in his book that linux has >> helped FreeBSD a lot by supplying a lot of developers and taking the >> open source movement to the next level. Get a copy of Design and >> Implementation of FreeBSD. Let's be pragmatic. > > Firstly you should watch 'The Code'. Eric Allman (of sendmail) has > clearly said that FOSS movement is nothing but institutionalization of > the grand old UNIX culture (nurtured by BSD). He is also the domestic > partner of Marshall :) > Yes we know who Eric Allman is. FOSS has nothing to do with the UNIX culture, it's the hacker culture that is related to UNIX and BSD. Bill Joy is not a big fan of open source and neither SUN was. If they had been a big fan they would have opened solaris way back. > As the kind of creatures they are, BSD and Linux will keep on > influencing each other. This is evolution. Solaris came out of same > evolution. > When a 35 year old project gets influenced by a 20 year old project, it's a big thing. > Hey guys, can we have USENIX India? > > > > Mohit Singh > ------------------ > > Today's Imagination is Tomorrow's Innovation > Today's Innovation is Tomorrow's Common Sense > Today's Common Sense is Tomorrow's Nonsense > _______________________________________________ > bsd-india mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india > -- Cheers, Aditya Sarawgi _______________________________________________ bsd-india mailing list [email protected] http://www.bsd-india.org/mailman/listinfo/bsd-india
