[weisk]

No, the backbone of the internet is not maintained with patches sent in emails.

[chiluk]

You are very wrong about that ;) https://lkml.org/

[chiluk]

You are very wrong about that https://lkml.org/

[cbarrick]

Clearly you and the person you replied to are talking about very different things.

[_joel]

I think the sub-comment is confusing the linux kernel with BGP.

[nacs]

In a way, the Linux kernel does power the "backbones of the internet".

[_joel]

There are a hell of a lot of non-linux OS's running on core routers, but yes, in a way. However BGP isn't via email.

[dsr_]

On the other hand, I and my office mate at the time negotiated the setup of a ridiculous number of BGP sessions over email, including sending configs. That was 20 years ago.

[NexRebular]

luckily not... would be absolutely terrible to have the backbone only on linux

[dsr_]

Interoperability and a thriving ecosystem are necessities for resiliency.

Note that resiliency and efficiency are often working against each other.

[chiluk]

https://lkml.org/