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The tardis/Timelord package allows the Macintosh time to be set over an AppleTalk network from a Macintosh or UNIX/CAP based time server.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)Starting with version 1.5pre7, Netatalk is now licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), which is used by many Open Source/Free Software projects as their license of choice. We chose this license to allow us to develop Netatalk as freely as possible and to ensure that Netatalk will stay free in the future.
SerNet is joined by Ralph Böhme from NetAFP to further strengthen the SAMBA team. Böhme is the main developer of Netatalk, a free AFP implementation for Linux servers. [...] "Many users and manufacturers use Netatalk as Linux servers for Apple clients. Over the next two years, they need to migrate to SMB," says Ralph Böhme.
How do I pronounce netatalk? Ah, good question! The unenlightened often mis-pronounce this word \'net-'a-to.k\. The correct pronunciation is \'ned-*-to.k\ (the 't' is soft, like d, and the first 'a' is a schwa).
netatalk is a kernel-level implementation of the AppleTalk Protocol Suite, originally for BSD-derived systems.
The primary difference between netatalk and CAP is structure, in two ways. First, netatalk is a kernel-level implementation of AppleTalk. This means that packet reception in general and routing in particular are both efficient and easy to implement. It also means that new link-layers (e.g. we support some FDDIs, one could add PPP) can easily be added. CAP, on the other hand, relies on several less efficient tho more available methods (e.g. DDP-over-UDP, NIT, Berkeley Packet Filters). The second structural difference is in coding style. netatalk is an integration of AppleTalk into the Berkeley Unix networking paradigm. All of the semantics useful to the UDP/TCP programmer are useful to the netatalk-AppleTalk programmer, e.g. sendto(), select(). In contrast, CAP is written with the semantics of MacOS.
Over the past couple years Adrian Sun has pretty much taken over the application development and has added a slew of new features, including AFP over TCP and bug fixes.
The tardis/Timelord package allows the Macintosh time to be set over an AppleTalk network from a Macintosh or UNIX/CAP based time server.
Over the past couple years Adrian Sun has pretty much taken over the application development and has added a slew of new features, including AFP over TCP and bug fixes.