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illumos day 2014: The Dream is Alive! Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel
Bryan Cantrill's illumos Day 2014 talk on running Linux containers on an illumos kernel via LX-branded zones. He covers emulating Linux syscalls on SmartOS and compares Linux and Solaris-derived systems.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN points to it as an entertaining deep dive on Linux emulation on SmartOS and on how the Solaris kernel and libc are tightly coupled.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- illumos
- Topic
- linux emulation on illumos
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 13
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2019
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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I really enjoyed this talk[1] by Bryan Cantrill, part of which is about what it took to emulate Linux's syscalls from within SmartOS. It's lengthy, but enjoyable. One of the applications that they tried to port directly to before the emulation layer was htop, and …
ketralnis on Hacker News · 2016-02
In Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platformVideo of this talk. [VIDEO] Though it is from 2014, it is interesting on comparison between linux and smartos(solaris). There is also a recent, shorter video [LINK]
AnbeSivam on Hacker News · 2015-10
In Running Linux containers on an illumos kernel
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