OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/19850/Apple_Updates_DTrace_in_Mac_OS_X_10_5_3 Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:37:17 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com a real developers UNIX http://osnews.com/thread?318176 http://osnews.com/thread?318176 OS X is shaping up to be a real developers UNIX. With ZFS, full DTRACE, GNU tools, X11 it may become the leading OpenSolaris distribution, beating Project Indiana at its own game! ;) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:28:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (project_2501) Comments RE: a real developers UNIX http://osnews.com/thread?318190 http://osnews.com/thread?318190 Solaris is not DTrace or ZFS, let alone GNU or X11 (which don't have anything to do with Sun, let alone solaris) Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments RE[2]: a real developers UNIX http://osnews.com/thread?318191 http://osnews.com/thread?318191 Perhaps you should've turned your sarcasm detector on for that one. Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Thom_Holwerda) Comments RE[3]: a real developers UNIX http://osnews.com/thread?318194 http://osnews.com/thread?318194 Ok, after taking another look i think i just made myself look like an idiot ;-)

Honestly though, its kind of sad that I just assume something that off the wall to be serious... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (google_ninja) Comments Linux port http://osnews.com/thread?318197 http://osnews.com/thread?318197 I would love to see a Linux port of DTrace. Why hasn't this happened yet? Would it be to hard to port, licensing issues? I had assumed it was licensing issues, but it appears Apple has done it.Edited 2008-06-11 17:57 UTC Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Worloch) Comments DTrace is committed to FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT http://osnews.com/thread?318209 http://osnews.com/thread?318209 Funded by Y!, And yea it rocks Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Arabian) Comments i'll be pissed http://osnews.com/thread?318223 http://osnews.com/thread?318223 [sorry, wrong thread, please mod down/remove]Edited 2008-06-11 21:28 UTC Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:26:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (renhoek) Comments RE: Linux port http://osnews.com/thread?318229 http://osnews.com/thread?318229 In my opinion, it's a lack of will justified by licensing blather. It's almost always easier to talk about why something can't/shouldn't be done than to just do it.

Cue someone telling me why it can't/shouldn't be done... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:47:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aleventhal) Comments RE: Linux port http://osnews.com/thread?318241 http://osnews.com/thread?318241 NIH syndrome? Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (John Blink) Comments RE: Linux port http://osnews.com/thread?318270 http://osnews.com/thread?318270
I would love to see a Linux port of DTrace. Why hasn't this happened yet? Would it be to hard to port, licensing issues? I had assumed it was licensing issues, but it appears Apple has done it.


Mac OS X and Linux do not have the same license, so saying that Mac OS X (or FreeBSD) has it is not an argument to say there is no problem for linux to get it (from a licensing POV). Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:01:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ashigabou) Comments RE[2]: Linux port http://osnews.com/thread?318334 http://osnews.com/thread?318334 Because of the license issues. It has nothing to do with NIH.

For Linux there's a different tool: SystemTap. It is an open source project, http://sourceware.org/systemtap, started by 'the big guys', but AFAIK it isn't included in any distro by default. The project is a few years old, is actually active ( I checked the git repo ), but I can't tell you what the actual state is...

Harry Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DirtyHarry) Comments