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LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
USENIX · 9 recommenders · 9 months
Bryan Cantrill's LISA11 talk on how illumos arose after Oracle closed OpenSolaris. It covers the history of Sun, ZFS, DTrace and Zones, and the diaspora of kernel engineers, with a famous rant about Oracle and Larry Ellison.
Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN points to it as the definitive, entertaining account of Sun's fate under Oracle, and quotes its Ellison lawnmower advice whenever Oracle behaves badly.
Operating systems & kernelsLinux & open-source ecosystemsTech company stories & documentaries#illumos#opensolaris#oracle#sun microsystems#bryan cantrill#open source
“If you're interested how it came to be check out this epic talk by Bryan Cantrill”
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