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title: 'The Rise and Development of Illumos'
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publish_date: '2024-09-18 13:30'
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An extremely quotable talk by Brian Cantrill from 2011.

Some of my favourite lines:

> Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

> What you think of Oracle is even truer than what you think it is: "Shit mediocrity, inflict misery, lie our asses off, screw our customers, and make a whole shitload of money"

> The lawnmower doesn't care about OpenSolaris - the lawnmower doesn't have empathy

> Because I didn't work at Oracle anymore, I couldn't quit over this… I wanted to quit over it, but I couldn't

> There is a file system crisis in Linux and KVM… it's clown college

> If you jailbreak out of QEMU in our KVM implementation, you just find yourself in a zone. Congratulations, you've now burrowed out into a much more secure cell

> I didn't think this Illumos hackathon was going to work. Who's gonna hack on an operating system? It's complicated. It's like, "let's go hack on a 747-800!" You don't do that! It might crash!

Go watch the whole thing, it's great.