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by jclulow 10y ago
Would this service be more expensive to cover the Solaris license required?
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by jclulow 10y ago
SmartOS is really just a distribution of illumos; so are OmniOS, OpenIndiana, etc. We are all very similar as we push and pull from our common source base. When Oracle took the source closed again, they essentially forked their own private
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by jclulow 10y ago
I don't know that Oracle Solaris supports the Linux ABI. The revival of Linux ABI support in zones (containers) is a SmartOS (and illumos) thing, and we've diverged significantly from Solaris at this point.
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by jclulow 10y ago
It's honestly pretty difficult to take an Oracle lawyer's word on what would be good or bad for open source or free software.
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by jclulow 10y ago
Site Reliability Engineer?
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by jclulow 10y ago
It is extremely disingenuous to suggest that some combination of the Linux kernel and surrounding libraries are not intentionally knocking off at least a large subset of UNIX APIs. And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that, which
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by jclulow 10y ago
By that logic, the Linux ecosystem should be paying a handsome sum to whatever litigious shadow is left holding the UNIX IP.
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The End of Prison Visitation(mic.com)
268 points by jclulow 10y ago|147 comments
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The Mythical Man Month(archive.org)
2 points by jclulow 10y ago|1 comments
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by jclulow 11y ago
The sync(1M) command provided on many UNIX systems is often a thin wrapper around the sync(2) system call. The sync(2) entry point does not, as specified, guarantee that all inflight data _has_ been written; it's more of a guideline t
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by jclulow 11y ago
If you then expose that file system through a POSIX file system API, you have all of the same issues of underspecified or unclear behaviour that the article mentions.
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by jclulow 11y ago
At Joyent, our Triton cloud stack is built on illumos (nee Solaris) LX branded zones. We also have a Docker-compatible remote API, so not only can you run unmodified Linux binaries in containers, you can do so using the regular Docker clien
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by jclulow 11y ago
It seems that Github should eventually retry delivery on transient faults, like connection time outs or 500 errors.
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by jclulow 11y ago
As far as I know, Oracle has not made any SPARC intellectual property available since the acquisition of Sun. The T1 and T2 lines were emphatically Sun-era products.
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by jclulow 11y ago
Yes, even if it's "just a kernel", it's still an operating system. It's a piece of software that runs in the supervisor mode of the CPU, providing system call services to user applications. The marketing copy appea
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by jclulow 11y ago
Joyent Triton also exposes a Docker API, which you use with an unmodified copy of the Docker CLI. In that sense, working with Triton is also the same as on your laptop.
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by jclulow 11y ago
So there _is_ still a guest OS inside a hardware virtual machine, it's just a stripped down OS?
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by jclulow 11y ago
Engineering is rigour, understanding, accountability, the balance of competing concerns, communication and cowork with other people, the application of ethics, and continuous improvement. If your occupation strives to include these propert
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by jclulow 11y ago
Speaking from experience working on the LX brand (the Linux emulation layer for Joyent SmartOS), we would not have gotten very far with our emulation layer if we did not also faithfully emulate quite a lot of /proc. For example:
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by jclulow 11y ago
We learn to read and write, when we could just as well get all of our information read aloud to us by a few qualified Literary Scientists. I don't think it's a huge leap to expect that many adults would benefit from having some _
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by jclulow 11y ago
If it's true, it seems that they treat the security community about as well as they treat their drivers. Or the law in many places.
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by jclulow 11y ago
The Eternal September befalls all media eventually.
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by jclulow 11y ago
Though, if you buy a cheap SSD, I would be careful not to depend on it for important data. Cheaper SSDs often have very low write endurance, and using them as the OS drive where there will be swap and hibernation files, as well as potentia
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by jclulow 11y ago
Compaq also made x86 server equipment, which is one of the reasons they were assimilated by Hewlett Packard. Compaq developed the initial versions of the Smart Array RAID controllers, and were working with Intel (amongst others) on the tha
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by jclulow 11y ago
I imagine we would have ended up with even more Smart Array RAID controllers; a truly terrifying dystopian vision.
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by jclulow 11y ago
They also take a lot of executives to strip clubs.
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by jclulow 11y ago
It's basically 80 minutes of agonising "Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man."
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by jclulow 11y ago
Is there a particularly egregious example of one-sidedness you can point to?
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by jclulow 11y ago
It's shared hosting all over again!
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by jclulow 11y ago
This is nonsense they trialled first in Newcastle. Prohibiting the sale of a double shot of spirits in one glass; eventually forbidding the sale of any neat spirits at all. Want a nip of expensive scotch? Hope it's still good drowned

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