Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens | BSD Now 103

Why HN readers recommended it

HN links it for Cantrill's entertaining epoll versus kqueue rant and his stories, such as bricking a machine with rm -rf.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Jupiter Broadcasting

Topic

operating systems internals

Format

interview

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

12

Recommendation years in dataset

2015–2024

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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• Probably not, since that would have allowed someone to add GPL-only code to it which couldn't be distributed with the whole. The video is very good and you can follow-up with [VIDEO]

• Amusing Interview with Bryan Cantrill (regarding his background and he also shares some stories) [VIDEO] Also very informative (about what happened at Sun in the 90s, dtrace, ...) Quite a funny and smart guy ;)

• This sounds like something straight out of the Unix Hater's Handbook. :) But epoll is not the fault of Unix. Linux gets it wrong, but others do not. There's a good (and wildly entertaining) discussion/rant about it in this BSD Now episode: [VIDEO]