Linked by Amjith Ramanujam on Fri 18th Jul 2008 19:16 UTC, submitted by dockingbay94
At the heart of every networking device is an operating system that enables traffic flow. In the case of networking vendor Juniper, that operating system for the past ten years has been JUNOS, a network operating system with its roots in the open source FreeBSD operating system.
Juniper has updated JUNOS every 90 days since 1998.
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RE: Network Operating System
by Priest on Fri 18th Jul 2008 20:48
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RE[2]: Network Operating System
by kaiwai on Fri 18th Jul 2008 21:04
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I think open source is cool too, but why must 100% of all software be open source?
Why can't people just accept that some times, and maybe even most of them time open source is the best solution, but it is not the only solution to every problem.
Why can't people just accept that some times, and maybe even most of them time open source is the best solution, but it is not the only solution to every problem.
Depends on how you define opensource and conforming to the licence. One only needs to look at the flack Apple got for the fact that they didn't bend over backwards to provide assistance to KDE developers to get the changes merged from webkit into khtml.
For some, the mere presence of source code is enough to satisfy their definition of 'open source' whilst others claim that for something to be truly open source, it has to include the active participation of the said company in the development in a community like atmosphere.
As for 90 day development cycle, it would be an easy thing to do; just make sure that the updates you provide are either trivial or well tested. Give that they have only one target platform, and they can routinely test the OS, the release cycle of 90 days isn't all that difficult.
RE[2]: Network Operating System
by helf on Fri 18th Jul 2008 21:05
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RE[2]: Network Operating System
by mtzmtulivu on Fri 18th Jul 2008 21:05
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I think open source is cool too, but why must 100% of all software be open source?
Why can't people just accept that some times, and maybe even most of them time open source is the best solution, but it is not the only solution to every problem.
Why can't people just accept that some times, and maybe even most of them time open source is the best solution, but it is not the only solution to every problem.
you must be given options before you can choose ... a few people must live in the extremes on both sides of the argument to give you the opportunity to decide how far you want to stand between the arguments ..
the world isnt black and white but some people must present it that way to clearly show the issues ..you can blur it to your convenience but its nice to know where the limits are ..
Edited 2008-07-18 21:09 UTC
RE[2]: Network Operating System
by rajj on Sat 19th Jul 2008 17:16
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Why can't people just accept that some times, and maybe even most of them time open source is the best solution, but it is not the only solution to every problem.
Because...
The solution to the problem is the code itself. It being open or not doesn't have any intrinsic properties that preclude it from solving any problem that is solvable with a Turing Machine.
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2005-07-06
Every 90 days? How exact is this? On the second? I say we should jump!
"It's funny. Almost everyone I talk to wants to know how we can continue to ship feature-rich releases every 90 days"
I could do that too by copying FreeBSD and setting my alarm carefully.