Also the name of one of the first Linux distributions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X )
the main reason I used Slackware was because I didn't know how to pronounce Yggdrasil (I still don't).
Yggdrasil – Early-stage implementation of an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 network
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#13Can anyone explain what this means? What does it let me do?
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#14Also the name of one of the first Linux distributions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X )
the main reason I used Slackware was because I didn't know how to pronounce Yggdrasil (I still don't).
> Yggdrasil Linux/GNU/X, or LGX (pronounced igg-drah-sill)
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#15Xenogears
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#16One thing that wasn't clear to me from the documentation: What's the typical latency you observe with this network? Does the routing take physical distance/observed delays into account in some way, or could you wind up with short (in network space) paths that in reality bounce a packet back and forth between the US and New Zealand repeatedly?
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#17Also the name of one of the first Linux distributions ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X )
Their Linux CDs proved essential in a time where bandwidth was scarce and expensive with home users on dialup and only universities having a few megabits of bandwidth.
Not only that - the distribution my dad brought home included a _book_ (remember those?) which was actually a bunch of open source books collected in one! Tons of information on Unix stuff, shells, commands etc. I learnt so much from those books. I have no idea how someone would start in this day and age... (this was so important to tell for me that I finally stopped lurking and made an account _just_ for this comment!)
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Norse mythology has that beat by over 600 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_(disambiguation)
for some reason I thought norse mythology was older than this !
It is. The written sources we have for norse mythology are 13th century, and those are compilations of earlier (lost) writings and oral traditions. There are written fragments from the 10th century referring to the norse gods.
There are even 6th century writings referencing a germanic mythology with many similarities to the norse mythology.
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#19Interesting choice of LGPL license with exception.
Could someone summarize what exactly the implications are of the exception? It seems that it is a link-time firewall for any GPL viral behaviour? As long as you're on the other side of the linker you can do anything, including embed a statically linked version in a proprietary application?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Norse mythology has that beat by over 600 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_(disambiguation)
for some reason I thought norse mythology was older than this !
No comprehensive account of Norse mythology was ever written down by those who believed in it, or if it was, those records or references to them have not survived to this day. The only accounts we do have are those compiled by Christian monks who were converting the old Norse believers, right at the end of the pagan era.
These accounts are heavily colored by the expectations and the worldview of those monks, and we do not know where the ideas that the Norse actually believed in end and where the ideas of what the monks thought religion is supposed to be begin. For example, much of the popular conception of Ragnarok is heavily influenced by Christian eschatology, instead of the original Norse beliefs. To complicate it even further, the Norse beliefs were in no way static, and as the influence of Christianity spread, the beliefs might have morphed to absorb concepts from Christianity.