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There’s nothing in GPL that prevents or prohibits closing later versions. This is also true for the CDDL. The reason Oracle was able to close Solaris after it had been open is that…

You may want to try it again. We (Joyent) are using some of the latest Supermicro hardware in our cloud.

Most of the application specific images have stopped receiving updates. This is because they were time consuming to create/validate, and were mostly just the base-64 image with wha…

1. CDDL is fully BSD compatible. The license is file based, so it's non-infecting, and binaries can be re-licensed. Win/win. 2. Most already do. Some even believe that 1 makes CDDL…

I don't see how it could. Except that maybe we'll see some more Solaris refugees coming in. illumos has been a thriving project for over six years, fully independent from Oracle. T…

The significant difference here is that it's running unmodified Linux binaries. Compile on Linux, run in windows. You should be able to compile functioning Linux binaries on Window…

After Oracle bought Sun. It was never a part of Solaris 11. I don't know if it's still part of Solaris 10 or not, but even if it is, it's only barely usable. But it's alive and wel…

As has been pointed out on Twitter, > this is funny because his main beef is actually due to systemic problems inside Intel, not Illumos or FOSS https://twitter.com/kevinbowling1/s…

> The only thing I disagree with in the article is debugging vs. restarting. In the old model, where you have a sys admin per box, yes you might want to log in and manually tweak t…

That same web page lists Linux as harmful. http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/operating-systems/linux/

Every time I see someone point out a problem with systemd the response always seems to be "that's just , and using it is optional ". Why can't systemd developers/apologists take re…

It's that, plus cloud orchestration (i.e., SmartDataCenter) which includes sdc-docker, providing the Docker API and image management.

SmartOS runs just fine on AMD CPUs. KVM support for AMD hasn't been merged to illumos-kvm yet (mostly just due to time), but you can do your own builds with it ( https://github.com…

It's not a different architecture. SmartOS is x86 based, as are the Linux binaries. What lx-brand zones do is present an alternate system call table to the binaries executed inside…

Not true at all. * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=youtu.be...

I don't see why it's on the CDDL to fix. CDDL is a file based source license, the resulting binaries can be freely linked against binaries with different licenses. Section 3.6 expl…

> CDDL is and was created with the purpose of being GPL incompatible, because Sun did not want Linux to be able to use ZFS and DTRACE Not true at all. * https://www.reddit.com/r/IA…

The problem with the GPL is that it presupposes its own supremacy and refuses to work with other free licenses. Two prime examples are MPL and CDDL (which was based on the MPL). Bo…

We know. The culture in Unix was always sharing source and user collaboration. When AT&T finally tried to exert control there was a large movement within the community to go free o…

And illumos has interfaces and functionality not available in Oracle Solaris. That's Oracle's decision, not ours. I didn't mean to imply that there aren't talented and smart engine…

Companies don't innovate, people do. All of the technologies that illumos (and Solaris) is now known for (ZFS, Dtrace, crossbow, zones, RBAC, SMF, FMA) were developed by small team…

Oracle never publicly announced it. The last commit that I see copyrighted by Oracle is https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/ea10ff14a02f7... on August 18, 2010. After th…

Quoting Bryan[1]: > It's not that he rejected the pull request...it's that when he was overruled by Isaac some hours later, he unilaterally reverted Isaac's commit. (And, it must b…

FWIW, here's the SNL reference. Video: https://screen.yahoo.com/star-trek-convention-000000768.html Script: http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86hgetalife.phtml Someone might have pos…