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Yeah, they always win even though they have worse technology mostly just through force of numbers. Baffling really..

Maybe in an alternate universe we could have had zfs, smf and dtrace…



We still kinda have it… but yeah, there was a lot of promise (and use!) that got lost when Oracle bought Sun.

I still love the video of a guy screaming into an array of disks to show latencies spiking in a data center.


Aaand with the mention of Sun we are back on the solarpunk topic again. Great work. Circle of life, nature finds a way and all that.


With Tribbles? Like in

http://www.tribblix.org

?

Turn towards Tribblix in the next timeline transfer tunnel!

edit: What? According to about it isn't just a spin or repackaging of another illumos distribution. It's a completely independent distribution that, while sharing the key illumos technologies such as ZFS, zones, DTrace, and SMF, has been essentially built from scratch, with its own build and packaging system.




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