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by bahamat 7y ago
There’s nothing in GPL that prevents or prohibits closing later versions. This is also true for the CDDL. The reason Oracle was able to close Solaris after it had been open is that Sun had required a contributor license agreement that assig
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by bahamat 8y ago
You may want to try it again. We (Joyent) are using some of the latest Supermicro hardware in our cloud.
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by bahamat 8y ago
Most of the application specific images have stopped receiving updates. This is because they were time consuming to create/validate, and were mostly just the base-64 image with whatever package pre-installed via pkgin. This was also ha
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by bahamat 10y ago
1. CDDL is fully BSD compatible. The license is file based, so it's non-infecting, and binaries can be re-licensed. Win/win. 2. Most already do. Some even believe that 1 makes CDDL compatible with GPL as well and so ship binaries.
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by bahamat 10y ago
I don't see how it could. Except that maybe we'll see some more Solaris refugees coming in. illumos has been a thriving project for over six years, fully independent from Oracle. There has been zero code sharing, and little intera
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by bahamat 11y ago
The significant difference here is that it's running unmodified Linux binaries. Compile on Linux, run in windows. You should be able to compile functioning Linux binaries on Windows and run them on Linux as well.
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by bahamat 11y ago
After Oracle bought Sun. It was never a part of Solaris 11. I don't know if it's still part of Solaris 10 or not, but even if it is, it's only barely usable. But it's alive and well (and awesome) in SmartOS, with activ
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by bahamat 11y ago
As has been pointed out on Twitter, > this is funny because his main beef is actually due to systemic problems inside Intel, not Illumos or FOSS https://twitter.com/kevinbowling1/status/714352429333086208
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by bahamat 11y ago
> The only thing I disagree with in the article is debugging vs. restarting. In the old model, where you have a sys admin per box, yes you might want to log in and manually tweak things. In big distributed systems, code should be designe
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by bahamat 11y ago
That same web page lists Linux as harmful. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/operating-systems/linux/
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by bahamat 11y ago
Every time I see someone point out a problem with systemd the response always seems to be "that's just <subcomponent>, and using it is optional ". Why can't systemd developers/apologists take responsibility f
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by bahamat 11y ago
It's that, plus cloud orchestration (i.e., SmartDataCenter) which includes sdc-docker, providing the Docker API and image management.
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by bahamat 11y ago
SmartOS runs just fine on AMD CPUs. KVM support for AMD hasn't been merged to illumos-kvm yet (mostly just due to time), but you can do your own builds with it ( https://github.com/jclulow/illumos-kvm/ ). But T
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by bahamat 11y ago
It's not a different architecture. SmartOS is x86 based, as are the Linux binaries. What lx-brand zones do is present an alternate system call table to the binaries executed inside the zone. Those "lx" calls are compatible wi
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Docker Remote API Implementation for Triton(apidocs.joyent.com)
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by bahamat 11y ago
Not true at all. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=youtu.be...
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by bahamat 11y ago
I don't see why it's on the CDDL to fix. CDDL is a file based source license, the resulting binaries can be freely linked against binaries with different licenses. Section 3.6 explicitly says so! The primary difference between MPL
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by bahamat 11y ago
> CDDL is and was created with the purpose of being GPL incompatible, because Sun did not want Linux to be able to use ZFS and DTRACE Not true at all. * https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/31ny87/i_
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by bahamat 11y ago
The problem with the GPL is that it presupposes its own supremacy and refuses to work with other free licenses. Two prime examples are MPL and CDDL (which was based on the MPL). Both of which GNU regards as free software licenses, but says
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by bahamat 11y ago
We know. The culture in Unix was always sharing source and user collaboration. When AT&T finally tried to exert control there was a large movement within the community to go free of AT&T code. GNU and BSD were both a reaction to tha
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by bahamat 12y ago
And illumos has interfaces and functionality not available in Oracle Solaris. That's Oracle's decision, not ours. I didn't mean to imply that there aren't talented and smart engineers working on Solaris at Oracle. I am,
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by bahamat 12y ago
Companies don't innovate, people do. All of the technologies that illumos (and Solaris) is now known for (ZFS, Dtrace, crossbow, zones, RBAC, SMF, FMA) were developed by small teams of engineers taking charge. And nearly all of the dev
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by bahamat 12y ago
Oracle never publicly announced it. The last commit that I see copyrighted by Oracle is https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/ea10ff14a02f7... on August 18, 2010. After that, updates from Oracle sile
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by bahamat 12y ago
Quoting Bryan[1]: > It's not that he rejected the pull request...it's that when he was overruled by Isaac some hours later, he unilaterally reverted Isaac's commit. (And, it must be said, sent a very nasty private note to
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by bahamat 12y ago
FWIW, here's the SNL reference. Video: https://screen.yahoo.com/star-trek-convention-000000768.html Script: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86hgetalife.phtml Someone might have posted a link in th