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LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

USENIX · 310.3K views · 2011-12-15 · 1:04:04

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Overview

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.

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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.

Recommended by 9 HN people across 9 months · HN mentions 2012–2026

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jiggawatts · 2020-03 · Strong recommendation

Whenever I hear Oracle mentioned it reminds me that it's once again time to re-watch the "Never make the mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison" rant. [VIDEO]

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antoncohen · 2018-04 · Strong recommendation

"Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan Cantrill [VIDEO] He starts with a nice history of SunOS and Solaris, goes into open source, then midway through (33:00) he goes into a brutally honest rant against Oracle. Even better is that Oracle was one of the sponsors of the conference.

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gbrown_ · 2016-12 · Strong recommendation

> not a leaked version of it. It's a fork. If you're interested how it came to be check out this epic talk by Bryan Cantrill [VIDEO]

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