31 Dec
2014
31 Dec
'14
3:28 p.m.
Illumos is a branch (or fork: I'm not sure which word is most appropriate here)
of OpenSolaris: if my memory serves me right (always a bit ask) it's a
debianized OpenSolaris
http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/illumos+Home
OpenIndiana is another such project
http://openindiana.org/
and I think there are some other OpenSolaris branch/fork tree available, but i
don't know anything about them. Their primary importance, from my POV, is that
they keep the POSIX space open for experimentation: a Linux monoculture's as
deadening as a MS Windows monoculture or a [choose your own poison] monoculture ...
Wesley Parish
Quoting Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com>:
Yo Jacob,
I'm ex-sun but I don't know too much about Illumos. Care to give us
the summary of why I might care about it?
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 01:16:00AM -0500, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
Hey, thanks, Derrik.
I don't mess with Linux much (kind of an Illumos junkie by trade ;),
but
I bet gcc would. I did out of curiosity do it
with the Macintosh cc
(Apple
LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM
3.4svn)) and it
throws
warnings about our not type-defining functions
because you're
apparently
supposed to do this explicitly these days, but it
dutifully goes on
to
assume int and compiles our test K&R stuff
mostly fine. It does
unfortunately balk pretty badly at the naked returns we initially
had,
though. Wish it didn't because it strikes me
as being beautifully
simple..
thx again for the encouragement!
jake
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Derrik Walker v2.0
<dwalker(a)doomd.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-12-31 at 00:44 -0500, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
>
> >
> > P.S. if anyone's bored enough, you can check out what we're up to
at
> > https://github.com/srphtygr/dhb.
I'm trying to get my 11yo kid to
> > spend a little time programming rather than just playing video
games
> > when he's near a computer.
He'a actually getting through this
stuff
> > and is honestly interested when he
understands it and sees it work
--
> > and he even spotted a bug before me
this afternoon! Feel free to
> > raise issues, pull requests, etc. if you like -- I'm putting him
> > through the git committing and pair programming paces, so outside
> > interaction would be kinda fun :)
> >
> >
> > P.P.S. We're actually using 2.11bsd after all..
> >
> I'm curious, will gcc on a modern Linux system compile K&R c?
>
> Maybe when I get a little time, I might try to see if I can compile
it
> on a modern Fedora 21 system with gcc.
>
> BTW: Great job introducing him to such a classic environment. A few
> years ago, my now 18 year old had expressed some interest in
graphics
> programming and was in awe over an SGI O2 I
had at the time, so I
got
> him an Indy. He played around with a bit of
programming, but
> unfortunately, he lost interest.
>
> - Derrik
>
>
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