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by jdub 8y ago
The license does not meet the Open Source Definition (based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines), which means it is not open source.
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by jdub 8y ago
At a macro level, there are plenty of syscalls not wrapped by glibc that are used regularly in userspace. Then there's the micro level assumptions of behaviour. Look at the list of "doesn't work on WSL" software and al
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by jdub 8y ago
WSL is an implementation of the Linux kernel ABI on top of the NT kernel. Typical Linux user space does depend on the kernel ABI – most significantly via glibc, systemd and friends, but also to various degrees up through the stack.
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by jdub 8y ago
Entity-Component-System, amusingly explained in this great talk from RustConf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M
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by jdub 8y ago
Minor historical nitpick: The CDDL was based on the MPL. There used to be a lot of licenses that were pretty much the MPL with the names changed.
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by jdub 8y ago
Ubuntu was intentionally based on GNOME – before Ubuntu and Canonical even had names – because of the GNOME community's attitude towards usability and integration. (I was there.)
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by jdub 8y ago
It's shorthand for "the ABI relevant to the current context", which is entirely reasonable.
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Practically every modern phone platform happens to include a microkernel. Pretty widespread.
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by jdub 8y ago
Add CloudFront, then your CloudFront-provided TLS termination AND redirect will be much closer to the client.
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by jdub 8y ago
Wow, what a trove of good stuff. Thanks!
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by jdub 8y ago
But they didn't spend the time to keep GNOME up to date or make sure it was well integrated. Now that it's the default again, it gets more attention.
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by jdub 8y ago
The controversy that surrounds universal healthcare systems goes something like this: "I am disappointed by my treatment in the system!" "Do you want to privatise it?" "Absolutely not."
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by jdub 8y ago
Between Windows, macOS, and the major Linux desktop environments, practically no one is using a non-composited desktop these days. Compositors tend to aim for 60fps, because that's what most displays can handle. That means you _start_
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by jdub 9y ago
Redshift is a columnar SQL database, based on an old version of PostgreSQL.
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by jdub 9y ago
Mark, to his credit, hired some of the best people involved in Debian at the very beginning of Ubuntu's story. It absolutely had engineering teeth. Then he goofed up over and over and over again, particularly when it came to community
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by jdub 9y ago
DeviceTree is the standard / tooling you'll see outside ARM micro-controllers. Started on Power, then found a place in Linux's ARM tree, and is now spreading further.
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by jdub 9y ago
"simply" is one of those words that makes people twitch... See, the packaging format is not the problem. The protocol is where it gets tricky. I previously imagined Go support would arrive with a JSON on stdin/out/err
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by jdub 9y ago
Not as a wrapper, but an official Lambda runtime model. This Go release points to a much more interesting way of doing so (RPC) than what I had previously imagined (stdin/out/err).
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by jdub 9y ago
And yet, the golang runtime for Lambda is a long* running process that communicates over TCP. :-) It would be entirely possible to create a language agnostic Lambda runtime model, be it stdin/out/err, or TCP. * relatively so
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Principles of Technology Leadership, Bryan Cantrill(youtube.com)
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by jdub 9y ago
Yes, you could. In 2014. (Using the old asm.js.) Here's a 2014 Unreal Engine asm.js demo now running on WASM: https://s3.amazonaws.com/mozilla-games/ZenGarden/EpicZenGard... It's running on your browser&
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by jdub 9y ago
> my sense has been that challenges with Rust are written off in an off-hand way and its features exaggerated Not by the Rust development team, which is what matters. They are keenly aware of the challenges, and have done a huge amount o
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by jdub 9y ago
Genode lets you choose from a range of microkernels on which you'd like the system to run.
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by jdub 9y ago
"raped" is not an appropriate word to use in the context of this discussion. Please try to be more considerate.
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by jdub 9y ago
… for which Oracle owns the copyright.
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by jdub 9y ago
"event-based" (i.e. asynchronous)
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by jdub 9y ago
There are plenty of good reasons to avoid app server state (and thus session affinity), among them: Inefficiently imbalanced load balancing can affect performance and reliability, app server changes (service restart, reboot, scale down) wil
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by jdub 9y ago
If your backends aren't stateless, then yeah, you'll have to make sure connections hit the same backend (with session affinity via client IP, cookies, etc). But session affinity is a scalability anti-pattern, which should generall
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by jdub 10y ago
Yes. Or, as they mention, on metal. Though I imagine they're focused on being a good guest OS for the moment. :-)
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by jdub 10y ago
To filter out some of the buzz words: It's a new minimal Linux distro designed to run containers, with a build system that supports various image outputs (VMDK, ISO, cloud images, etc). The "packages" are Docker images. It&#x

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