On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Michael Widmann <[email protected]
> wrote:
> Any comments on this joyents and nextentas?
>
First, Joyent, Delphix, Nexenta and every other member of the illumos
community contributes to illumos -- to the core operating system -- which
in turn benefits everyone (OpenIndiana included). So we have in fact
helped OpenIndiana (most significantly with our KVM port to illumos, which
OpenIndiana included in its oi_151a release) -- and we will continue to do
so.
That said, I think it's important that we as a community recognize that
what binds us is core OS technologies (ZFS, Zones, Crossbow, DTrace, KVM,
etc.), and not how those technologies are packaged and distributed. A
central aspect of the failing of OpenSolaris (in my opinion) was that we
collectively (and Sun in particular) insisted on there being only One True
Path for the entire system. At its best, this ethos manifested itself as
endless discussions on governance and voting and constitutions -- and at
its worse led to arguments, discord, politicking and fracture.
But with illumos, we have a rebirth: we have not only fresh blood in terms
of technologists, but also (I would like to think) more tolerance around
those elements that are ancillary to those core technologies. As such,
several distributions have flowered that would have not been possible in
the shadow of OpenSolaris -- and I expect more to come. This is _healthy_
as it means that more people (not fewer) will be exposed to our core values
as new distributions arise to fill new niches. As a community moving
forward, we need to stay focussed on the values that bind us -- and that
means leading with the technology, not pre-announcements or rhetoric or
endless discussion. To that end, I would point to the illumos hackathon as
a shining example of what we can and should be doing: similarly minded
people coming together to advance the state of the art in operating systems!
With that, I would like to ask that we cease the friendly fire and get back
to work. Speaking personally, I am going to be spending the afternoon
finishing up the ::scalehrtime dcmd that we found so invaluable on a nasty
KVM problem this past week (patch to come on that one), and adding some
code to the panic path that would make a similar problem slightly easier to
debug -- work that I believe to be examples (if extraordinarily small ones)
of the values that bind our community...
- Bryan
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