Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens | BSD Now 103

Jupiter Broadcasting · 39.4K views · 2015-08-20 · 2:00:28

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Overview

A BSD Now episode featuring a long interview with Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill on dtrace, ZFS, pkgsrc, containers and more. It includes his rant on why Linux epoll is flawed and stories from Sun.

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HN links it for Cantrill's entertaining epoll versus kqueue rant and his stories, such as bricking a machine with rm -rf.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2015–2024

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Operating systems & kernels Linux & open-source ecosystems Tech pioneers & interviews

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beefhash · 2018-02 · Recommendation
I also found the somewhat more casual BSDnow podcasts that featured Mr. Cantrill quite insightful[1,2,3]. He shows up around 15 or 30 minutes in. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK]
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Gracana · 2016-08 · Recommendation
This sounds like something straight out of the Unix Hater's Handbook. :) But epoll is not the fault of Unix. Linux gets it wrong, but others do not. There's a good (and wildly entertaining) discussion/rant about it in this BSD Now episode: [VIDEO]
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myztic · 2015-11 · Recommendation
Amusing Interview with Bryan Cantrill (regarding his background and he also shares some stories) [VIDEO] Also very informative (about what happened at Sun in the 90s, dtrace, ...) Quite a funny and smart guy ;)
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