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SmartOS looks interesting, but I've never had a good chance to try it on a real project. I do actually have an extra box at work that I suppose I could spin up
by 0xcde4c3db 8y ago
SmartOS looks interesting, but I've never had a good chance to try it on a real project. I do actually have an extra box at work that I suppose I could spin up in my copious spare time, but I'm not sure what I'd do with it. Are LX-branded zones complete enough to run something like a build environment based around a vendor-dropped toolchain?
> The Unix-like operating system [...]
I know I'm late to this party, being a bit too young to have direct experience of the Unix Wars and "UN*X" snark and so on, but this really does grate. It feels like trademark law has been twisted toward requiring misrepresentation rather than preventing it.
- bionsystem 8y ago> Are LX-branded zones complete enough to run something like a build environment based around a vendor-dropped toolchain? Yes. Ubuntu is even certified by Cannonical iirc. Given that it boots on USB, and ZFS creates a pool in like a second, you can get started in a few minutes providing your internet is fast enough to pull the guest images.
- mikestew 8y agoIt feels like trademark law has been twisted toward requiring misrepresentation rather than preventing it. There are technical differences, as well. Most of the time one will never tell the difference (hence "Unix-LIKE": you'll likely never know). But BSD is not Linux, and vice-versa. For a really poor analogy, kind of like the electric version of an ICE automobile. Looks a lot like the ICE version (well, the grill is kind of funny), operates mostly the same, but under the hood it's different.
- 0xcde4c3db 8y agoI don't have a problem with people calling Linux "Unix-like", I have a problem with people feeling like they have to call actual Unix descendants (like forks of BSD and SVR4) "Unix-like" while IBM gets to use "Unix" for z/OS.