THE VIDEO SHELF · illumos and oracle history
LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
Bryan Cantrill's LISA11 talk on how illumos arose after Oracle closed OpenSolaris. It covers the history of Sun, ZFS, DTrace and Zones, and the diaspora of kernel engineers, with a famous rant about Oracle and Larry Ellison.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as the definitive, entertaining account of Sun's fate under Oracle, and quotes its Ellison lawnmower advice whenever Oracle behaves badly.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- USENIX
- Topic
- illumos and oracle history
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 9
- HN mentions in dataset
- 20
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2026
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From the original HN conversations
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grin Here we go... For "laughing at ourselves" and oddities of computer languages, there is "Wat" by Gary Bernhardt: [LINK] For an opinion on the Sun to Oracle transition, there is "Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan M. Cantrill, Joyent. His …
Malic on Hacker News · 2016-10
In Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?> not a leaked version of it. It's a fork. If you're interested how it came to be check out this epic talk by Bryan Cantrill [VIDEO]
gbrown_ on Hacker News · 2016-12
In "Solaris being canned, at least 50% of teams to be RIF'd in short term""Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan Cantrill [VIDEO] He starts with a nice history of SunOS and Solaris, goes into open source, then midway through (33:00) he goes into a brutally honest rant against Oracle. Even better is that Oracle was …
antoncohen on Hacker News · 2018-04
In Ask HN: What is your favourite tech talk?
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