Re: [ilugd] Google mail

2005-05-02 Thread gaurav
Bhaskar Ghose wrote: Hello, But the fact is the core is GNU/Linux ?? and by that could it be implied that they actually have to release the OS etc as under the GPL license. The GPL says that if you make any modifications to the software and you keep it to yourself and don't sell,

Re: [ilugd] Google mail (about security)

2005-05-02 Thread Vikas Upadhyay
Hi man, if you really want to confirm this go to netcraft.com and enter www.gmail.com in whats this site is running section ...it will give you detailed statistics !! there is also google code project I raised the same question there they told it runs on c++, python and java

[ilugd] Google mail

2005-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I know this mail is not directly connected to linux but still here goes: 1. Is it true that the backend of Google is on Linux ? . I know that their database is MySql based 2. All the other email services are kind of getting a beating as far as space is concerned. gmail seems to be

Re: [ilugd] Google mail

2005-05-01 Thread Bhaskar Ghose
Hi there, 1. Is it true that the backend of Google is on Linux ? . I know that their database is MySql based Well, to say the truth, they almost have their own OS. It's true that the core of the OS is GNU/Linux, but they have modified it to suite their needs and the modifications are major

Re: [ilugd] Google mail

2005-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks But the fact is the core is GNU/Linux ?? and by that could it be implied that they actually have to release the OS etc as under the GPL license. If hardware costs are so cheap what prevents other service providers from having similar email spaces. regards ram Bhaskar Ghose wrote: Hi

Re: [ilugd] Google mail

2005-05-01 Thread Bhaskar Ghose
Hello, But the fact is the core is GNU/Linux ?? and by that could it be implied that they actually have to release the OS etc as under the GPL license. The GPL says that if you make any modifications to the software and you keep it to yourself and don't sell, redistribute it, you can keep the

Re: [ilugd] Google mail

2005-05-01 Thread Raj Mathur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ram == ramnarayan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ram Thanks But the fact is the core is GNU/Linux ?? and by that Ram could it be implied that they actually have to release the OS Ram etc as under the GPL license. No, nothing in the GPL

Re: [ilugd] Google mail

2005-05-01 Thread gaurav
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks But the fact is the core is GNU/Linux ?? and by that could it be implied that they actually have to release the OS etc as under the GPL license. Hi man, if you really want to confirm this go to netcraft.com and enter www.gmail.com in whats this site is