Computer Networks: A Systems Approach, with Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson

Bruce Davie and Larry Peterson talk about their Systems Approach series of

books on computer networking. These books began with the textbook Computer Networks: A

Systems Approach, published in 1996. After publishing the fifth

edition in 2011, they took their book "open source" by making the text

freely available on

Github under a Creative Common license. Now the original book is

part of a series that also includes "micro-books" on SDN and 5G, with

more books in preparation. In this episode, Bruce and Larry talk about

their motivations and future plans, including trying to rope your host

into writing a book on Open vSwitch.

For more information on the series, visit systemsapproach.org or follow

the series on substack as systemsapproach or

Twitter as and @SystemsAppr. You can find

Bruce on Twitter as @_drbruced and Larry as @_llpete.

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music is Yeah Ant

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music is Space

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