Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 12:12:21 -0700 From: Tom Samplonius <tom@samplonius.org> To: Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [heads up] axing AppleTalk and IPX/SPX Message-ID: <06F87683-2E6F-48A1-B99B-E9A00070D4C3@samplonius.org> In-Reply-To: <139F9446-64B8-4105-AEFB-4F90EDB44792@lassitu.de> References: <20131028124221.GO52889@glebius.int.ru> <139F9446-64B8-4105-AEFB-4F90EDB44792@lassitu.de>
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On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de> wrote: > Am 28.10.2013 um 13:42 schrieb Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>: >=20 >> The plan is two axe two old networking protocols from FreeBSD head/, >> meaning that FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE, available in couple of years would >> be shipped without them. >>=20 >> 1) AppleTalk >>=20 >> Last time claimed to be supported by vendor in 2007[1]. In practice >> had very little use since 90th. >> Discontinued by major routing equipment vendors since 2009[2]. >=20 > Since Apple has now even deprecated AFP (the file sharing protocol = implemented by netatalk, among others), it=92s time to let go. >=20 Do you have a reference for that? Various pundits have claimed that = Apple is deprecating AFP because when you enable Personal File Sharing, = that enables SMB now, not AFP, but so far I have not seen any official = announcement from Apple either way. Tom
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