Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux

jrepin writes "Everywhere you look, change is afoot in computer networking. As data centers grow in size and complexity, traditional tools are proving too slow or too cumbersome to handle that expansion. Dinesh Dutt is Chief Scientist at Cumulus Networks. Cumulus has been working to change the way we think about networks altogether by dispensing with the usual software/hardware lockstep, and instead using Linux as the operating system on network hardware. In this week's New Tech Forum, Dinesh details the reasons and the means by which we may see Linux take over yet another aspect of computing: the network itself."

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2013 Year of the Linux Network

[Anonymous Coward]

If you can't make your goal just change the goal posts.

Re:2013 Year of the Linux Network

[robthebloke]

But all I want to know is, will sudo rm -rf / delete the internet?

Re:Doesn't matter

[Anonymous Coward]

Hey, why don't we move all of those cables and monitors and keyboards and mice into "the cloud" too. I saw some marketing presentation which says everything can go into the cloud. I'm not sure why anyone buys computers or even pays for electricity any more... just put it all in the cloud!

Re:Doesn't matter

[funwithBSD]

Electricity has always been in the cloud.