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What you ask is what many outside the Linux community are so annoyed and frustrated with. The Linux communities complete inability to look outside their echo ch

by X86BSD 9y ago

What you ask is what many outside the Linux community are so annoyed and frustrated with. The Linux communities complete inability to look outside their echo chamber. Constantly reinventing the wheel poorly and in a broken screw portability way. Instead of hacking together cgroups and namespaces they should have simply ported the jail framework. Instead of epoll they should have simply adopted kqueue. All they see is Linux only.

glandium 9y ago
And Solaris has zones and I/O completion ports. So what?
- X86BSD 9y ago
  Solaris is dead. Maybe you didn't get the memo? And your comment has absolutely nothing to do with Linux or the Linux community.
  - floatboth 9y ago
    Solaris™ is dead, but everyone calls illumos "Solaris" :D
floatboth 9y ago
To be fair, cgroups appeared before we got rctl/racct. More actual disasters though: signalfd (https://ldpreload.com/blog/signalfd-is-useless https://ldpreload.com/blog/signalfd-is-useless), ALSA, wireless_tools/iproute2(ip command)/iw (was it SO HARD to just keep improving ifconfig?!), procfs/sysfs & udev.
- X86BSD 9y ago
  If I logged on to a UNIX box, and ifconfig was not there I would install a real UNIX. Seriously I am not going to hunt down or figure out why basic UNIX tools, interfaces, or APIs are not there. I'm just going to write the OS off as a busted trash fire and fix it using the above fix.