Ben, > That seems more like it was due to a total lack of interest. Could >it simply be that most everyone has moved to Internet Protocol now?
I agree to a point that the current orphaning of the code in the kernel is probably due to a "total lack of interest", and that there is a good possibility that everyone has moved to something else. But in walking back to my house from breakfast today, it occurred to me that the average "user" of DECnet Linux probably does not read the DECnet Linux mailing lists. It has worked, and worked for a long time. If people are using it, they probably just install it, read the HowTos, etc. Someday the code will be ripped from the kernel and it will stop working....then (as the poster said), people may just user older kernels. In any case, my point of writing was that FOSS had extended the life of this older protocol and hardware for about the last ten years, not that anyone should keep it alive for the one or two people who *might* still be using it. md _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/