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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by PietjePukster on Monday August 31, 2020 @04:49AM (#24329580)
BGP 2.0, like self driving cars, are five years away.

For the last 20 years..

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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by p_l on Monday August 31, 2020 @07:38AM (#24330401)
Good that we're running BGP 4, right? ;)
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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by Aperocky on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:16AM (#24331656)
This makes total sense because humans are inherently lazy. Hurd would be out in production in 199x if not for Linux. But it's still being worked on in 2020.
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Re:Analysis of Today's CenturyLink/Level(3) Outage by phone8675309 on Monday August 31, 2020 @10:41AM (#24331918)
> humans are inherently lazy

> Hurd would be out in production in 199x if not for Linux.

I think Hurd is not a good example of this. Hurd being sidelined seems to me to be a result of bikeshedding (which microkernel to use) and realizing that Linux (as a kernel) had more effort being poured into it because it had more mindshare.

> But it's still being worked on in 2020.

At more or less a leisurely pace as a passion project more than the end goal being production, precisely because the social goal that it was trying to achieve has been mostly achieved by the Linux kernel.

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