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Avahi.org dead?[edit]

The site seems to have only a stub page remaining for quite some time, most of the stuff e.g. the wiki is inaccessible except through the internet archive wayback machine (problematic because some of the things are linked to from outside e.g. debian wiki) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.189.75.106 (talk) 04:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

avahi[edit]

Categorizing Avahi as a project that was only formerly hosted at fd.o is misguiding. Some parts of the Avahi project are still hosted at fd.o. Most prominently the mailing list. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.177.227.30 (talk) 16:03, 3 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Apple involvement[edit]

The text seems to suggest that there is/was some major Apple involvement with the project. However, the only proof for that is a link to a video of a talk by the creator. Other than that, there are no references to Avahi on Apple's homepage (except some entries in the discussion forum). In particular, unlike other open source projects like gcc etc., it's not listed on http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/ . There are no contributors with Apple email addresses in Avahi's git repository.

The statement in the text that Avahi "might overtake" Apple's implementation is blatantly misleading, because in context with "Apple works with the Avahi team" it suggests that Apple is looking to replace Bonjour with Avahi. There is no sign that this is true in any way. The paragraph is pretty ambiguous, so it's not necessarily misinformation. However, as misleading as it is, and due to being outdated (nobody cares about the state in 2005 - it's 2012 now, what is its status in 2012?), I think it's best to remove it, which I did. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.240.64.184 (talk) 12:49, 8 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The statement "Avahi implements the Apple Zeroconf specification" suggests that Apple has created a specification of some kind which is implemented by its own Bonjour as well as Avahi. Is there really an implementation-independant specification or does this just mean Bonjour itself? Anorax (talk) 07:48, 6 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Overview SVG[edit]

The svg image is malformed. It does not display correctly in Firefox 2.0. IMHO, it probably was not tested in various browsers, or it was created with Adobe's proprietary methods; hard for me to tell.

Firefox 3.5.5 renders it correctly; its source says "Created with Inkscape", and the validator says it is formally correct. --TankMiche 13:38, 14 November 2009 (UTC)

Bonjour vs mDNSResponder[edit]

From what I can tell (from the wikipedia article about Bonjour, and the README in apples mDNSResponder) it appears that mDNSResponder is under the apache license, but Bonjour is not. I've changed this article a bit to say that "parts of bonjour" are under the apache license (as the wp article about bonjour does) but perhaps someone with more energy and knowledge will want to rewrite this a bit to say what mDNSResponder is, and talk about that instead of Bonjour. -- JasonWoof (talk) 13:49, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]