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   by bdha 7y ago

   This origin story is not entirely accurate[0]. (I spent almost four years helping build datacenters for Samsung _Mobile_, who actually bought Joyent.) [0] https://github.com/joyent?q=manta
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   by bdha 7y ago

   "Corporate speed bump" is not how I would characterize any of what you did. Quite the spin! I mean, if you want to publicly comment on your time at Joyent, please! I'm still pretty angry about it, and I left the better part o
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   by bdha 14y ago

   Nexenta is based on illumos now. They just published their gate on GitHub. Presumably we'll be seeing pull requests from them. :-)
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   by bdha 14y ago

   As I said above, OpenSolaris is dead. illumos is a fork. We don't take code from Oracle, because there isn't any. If they'd kept the gate open, a fork probably wouldn't have happened. As for why not to just move from Solaris to FreeBSD... b
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   by bdha 14y ago

   OpenSolaris has been dead for two years. illumos is a fork of the source code repo that made up the OS and Net consolidations from Sun. Oracle closed the gate shortly after the acquisition, with the promise they'd drop code after Solaris 11