[heads up] axing AppleTalk and IPX/SPX

[Tom Samplonius]

On Oct 28, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Stefan Bethke <stb at lassitu.de> wrote:

> Am 28.10.2013 um 13:42 schrieb Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at FreeBSD.org>:
> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 1) AppleTalk
>> 
>>  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].
> 
> Since Apple has now even deprecated AFP (the file sharing protocol implemented by netatalk, among others), it’s time to let go.
> 

  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