Systemtap 1.0 has been released. There are a few features for this release, like experimental support for unprivileged users, cross-compiling for foreign architectures, matching C++ class and namespace scopes, reduced runtime memory consumption, but more importantly, this release means that Systemtap is finally considered stable and ready for user adoption.
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Member since:2005-07-08
My "innovation standard" as you put it is based on features that my customers and I want in an OS. If those features are not being developed then why should I use the OS? For an OS to be touted as "enterprise ready", I expect enterprise features and not just a lot of pretty marketing speak. I don't care about desktop eye candy and support for the latest USB wireless card since those features are shut off as part of our lockdown. This is the difference between desktop and enterprise computing, people like me are looking for the "cool tech" because it helps us give customers what they want and makes life easier for us.
Based on my experience I have had no issues with ZFS, sorry to hear about your problems.
Getting a bit defensive aren't you?
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-24
Since you are in your "on the attack" mode, I guess it's fair to say that Solaris/OpenSolaris would be a complete nonstarter on my customers' servers. For one thing, it couldn't run their accounting or point of sale software. Oops...
And the problems and limitations roll on from there. The XDMCP servers need all the desktopish things that Linux offers. I guess maybe Solaris would be OK on the firewalls. But if I were going to move them from Linux, I'd be more inclined to go OpenBSD.
Glad you are happy with Solaris. But in my world, *Solaris is in a niche that doesn't offer much of value for our business use.
I normally would just hold my tongue on this. But like I say, since you are on the attack... yet again...
Edited 2009-09-26 05:16 UTC
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2005-07-06
... Don't know, maybe Linux users actually need a copy-on-write FS? Performance gathering library? Maybe they actually need container based virtualization solution? Should RedHat simply give up on giving their customers what they need simply because it doesn't measure up to your "innovation" standard?
Oh, lets not forget, if Sun starts following your "innovation" standard they should stop working on porting VirtualBox (which they own) to Solaris - after all, VMWare had it first!
Has it ever occurred to you that having a better, faster, more-resilient ZFS in the form of BTRFS * is -far- more important than your "innovation" factor? (In my short experience with ZFS, if something happens, good luck trying to salvage anything)
In end, I'd imagine that most users don't really care about "I got there first" pissing contents - they (should) only care about what works, and works well. Who invented it first is irrelevant.
- Gilboa