ptribble · HackerTrans

27 giorni fadiscuss

It's a bit of an in-joke, as if illumos itself isn't retro enough. But it relates to the use of older (smaller, faster, lighter weight, more reliable and well tested) technologies in certain places, the most obvious being the use of traditional SVR4 packaging as opposed to IPS.

ptribble

27 giorni fadiscuss

Oh, Open Look is there too. Although I always found Open Look, like SunView before it, to be pretty unpleasant to use.

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27 giorni fadiscuss

One of the reasons for creating Tribblix in the first place was that there really wasn't any documentation on how OpenSolaris (as was) was built. I wanted to understand that, so had to work it out essentially from scratch. I soon worked out that there were ways to do it better, and Tribblix is still here something like 15 years later.

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5 mesi fadiscuss

Why pick on the over-70s though? Most drivers in the UK either can't see or don't bother looking, so we should be demanding higher standards of all drivers.

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6 mesi fadiscuss

Not dead, still going strong under new ownership (MNX).

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6 mesi fadiscuss

SmartOS can, of course, boot from a local zfs pool, but it treats it logically as just another source for the bootable image. See the piadm(8) command.

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