Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 17th Jan 2007 00:19 UTC
Sun Microsystems is set to license OpenSolaris under the upcoming GNU GPLv3 in addition to the existing Common Development and Distribution License, sources close to the company have told eWEEK. "The next version of Solaris will include things like GNU Userland, which is already being attempted with OpenSolaris, while open-source solutions from other communities for things like package management also look very promising. Dual-licensing OpenSolaris with GPLv3 could make this even easier," said a source who declined to be named.
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2005-07-20
Well I take a look at the comparison chart:
http://sourceware.org/systemtap/wiki/SystemtapDtraceComparison
They are saying that the target audience of Dtrace is not Developpers (!), that you can not use Dtrace for debugging (!).
Funnier, that the ongoing evolution of Dtrace is slow but their is fast that the number of probe is limited (!) on Dtrace but not on SystemTap.
Dunno if anyone bothered to list this yet but there are a number of factual errors in that list (omissions, mis-statements, misleading statements, and flat out falsehoods)... check this out:
http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/09/going-line-by-line.html
I can't say whether they purposely painted it in an incredibly biased light, but it looks like one of those microsoft funded "independent research" findings to me... "ongoing evolution -- rapid -- slow"... yeah, way to twist the facts through the use of terms...
anyway, check out the list if you actually have any interest in these two things and how they differ, then check out the other link... can't say he's 100% spot on either, but he seems to know what he's talking about.
"Systemtap has seemed to miss its target audience, its current audience is Kernel developers; I know of no users that use Systemtap on a daily basis, the same statement holds true for Sysadmins as well. There are hardly any pre-made Systemtap scripts, at the moment so your only users are kernel Coders. I’ve not heard of any userland developers using Systemtap to solve problems since userland probes are not included. Nor is support for any other application or scripting language probing."