LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

Why it was recommended

If you're interested how it came to be check out this epic talk by Bryan Cantrill

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What it covers

Bryan Cantrill's LISA11 talk on how illumos arose after Oracle closed OpenSolaris. It covers the history of Sun, ZFS, DTrace and Zones, and the diaspora of kernel engineers. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.

Video details

Channel

USENIX

Length

1 hr 4 min

Year

2011

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