1 Jan
2015
1 Jan
'15
4:42 a.m.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 05:19:15PM -0500, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Wow, Larry, were you one of the guys in Sun who
actually lobbied to abandon
Solaris 2 and resurrect SunOS 4.x when Solaris 2.3 flopped?
Over and over and over again. You have no idea.
Anyway, a friend I admire quite a lot took the time
to put some of this
Sun history and Illumos fork stuff into a talk at LISA a few years back and
I think he did a really nice job. Have a look if you like:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
Yeah, I know Bryan pretty well, we used to be neighbors in Noe Valley
and have spent a fair amount of time discussing OS stuff. Here's
Bryan, Jeff Bonwick, and Bill Moore at my place in the Santa Cruz
mountains:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/257.html
and Bill and Linus talking file systems at the same party:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/255.html
The best shot was the next morning when the women were gathered around
Linus asking him how he lost weight:
http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/276.html
His answer? "Eat less." "Did you stop drinking?" Hell no, I like my
beer!"
Fun times.
I don't agree that Linux is as bad as you have described,
Linus has pretty reasonable taste.
Solaris may be sorted but /proc in Linux is oh-so-much-more-useful.
My view is Linux is pragmatic about stuff, Solaris was dogmatic about it.
Yeah, the latter leads to better thought out stuff but the former tends
to be useful sooner.
--lm