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Quite unfortunately for all of us condemned to use GNU/Linux: - GCC exists because Sun Studio compilers weren't free back then; - Apache is the next generation NCSA web server; - nginex is a re-invented Apache wheel. Do you have a
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Sun Microsystems literally invented geoclustering! Wow... just... wow.
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"If you compare Sun to their competitors at the time: IBM, DEC, SGI, HP, and even Microsoft. Sun was way ahead on distributed systems." Careful now, you're on thin ice: Sun Microsystems might have been a pioneer in distribu
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You seem to believe a shitty general key-value store with no SQL interface and no ACID guarantees qualifies as a distributed system, which is terribly shallow and misguided. I worked at a company circa 2005 where we had a platform as a serv
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There used to be but I cannot find it any more, that is exactly why I asked...
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Sometimes it's worth fighting for to the end if that something you're fighting for is the right thing. And sometimes what happens is that the right thing does win out in the end, because it's better. You're asking Rembra
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How long did it take you to install Triton? How many systems did you need to install Triton? How much memory did(do) the individual systems running Triton have? Which documentation did you follow to install Triton?
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"For a start it needs to do its first boot off a CD and subsequent boots off a USB drive-type-arrangement." No it does not. I boot my SmartOS instances with PXE, DHCP and TFTP from the network. Served by a Solaris 10 intel server,
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Write the drivers for your hardware and bootstrap it and it will be able to run. Wait a minute, wasn't that THE one and only answer for "my hardware doesn't run Linux!" from the early '90's all the way to 2005?
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1. full-blown virtual UNIX servers running at bare metal speeds (joyent-branded zones). 2. ability to run virtual Linux servers are bare metal speeds (and their applications). 3. simple and easy container management of 1. and 2. with imgadm
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Sun Microsystems literally invented the network is the computer . They were the first company ever to even begin to think in terms of distributed systems on a network scale (DEC had done some pioneering work on the hardware front prior t
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That was over 15 years ago! It's now faster than GNU/Linux on the same hardware and has been for the past ten years.
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I have never in my life dealt with engineers so competent, professional and kind as the Sun Microsystems folks were. If they were technologically arrogant, they earned it: their inventions outlasted the company and live on in many product
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This is patent nonsense. Sun lost because they were not price competitive. They thought they could command outrageous sums and 46% profit margins because they sold UltraSPARC-based servers and in the case of AMD / intel servers becau
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"but it's kinda sad to see a technically visionary set of products reach a dead end" It's not a dead end since any company, public or private can use the code and the product (I for instance build my own modified SmartOS
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Apart from this entry I don't see any discussion on what Sun did wrong, but since you broached the subject: - I'm furious about all the attention RISC V undeservedly gets while OpenSPARC is vastly superior in terms of mnemonics an
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You have five commands you need to know: zpool, zfs, imgadm, vmadm and man. The rest are the same applications as on GNU/Linux. I don't know of any other system where five commands suffice to run it.
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SmartOS beats GNU/Linux feature for feature and it has features like fault management architecture that are science fiction for Linux. For example, it will migrate affected memory pages from portions of the chip with too many parity er
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Prove it.
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I'm an old Solaris diehard who grew up on Solaris, which was my first UNIX®️. I'm also a Solaris 7 and a Solaris 10 certified system administrator. So for me SmartOS is a walk in the park to use. I even prefer SVR4 tools over GNU.
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You know he hates unikernels, so this must be some sort of an internal jab.
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It's far, far from over as long as SmartOS remains easier to use and more reliable than GNU/Linux. The source code is there to fork, so just like GNU/Linux, there will be people working on it and using it. OpenBSD has 5.71 de
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With technology which is an order of magnitude more concerned with reliability and easier to use than any competition out there, that's how.
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Yep, I could easily imagine Bryan being crushed by this. I know I would be, knowing I have superior technology to anyone else and yet being told I have to withdraw from the competition. It's like coming to a race track with a car and b
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That doesn't explain anything really. What I want to know is what actually went on behind closed doors. Everything else is corporate public relations. In these cases hearsay is often far more accurate and reliable than these carefully
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I don't care what the "working definition" is (you just made that up)! Discrimination is differentiation by definition. If it's "us versus them" rather than "because of their education, skill and work expe
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This thing shatters every time developers are told that they have to learn how to make operating system packages. As a developer myself, I cannot come to terms with that since OS packaging is a tool for developers and since it's easy t
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"White people" is very racist because it discriminates between humans. It's just as racist as "that Redskin" or "Black people". Humans are humans, levels of Melatonin shouldn't play a role. The person
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All people suffer. Discrimination also creates suffering.
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Any time one distinguishes between any human on the basis of skin color or origin, they are by definition of the verb to discriminate discriminating. Meanwhile we all have blood, liver, pancreas, brains et cetera. There is no biomechanial o

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