Adam Leventhal (one of the DTrace developers) was in volved in making DTrace work for BrandZ. He's written a blog entry on using this combination to have a look at the "top issue" (why is it that whenever you run top, the top process is top?). The blog entry shows how using DTrace and OpenSolaris (the only way that you can currently d BrandZ), can be of benefit to Linux.
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If a sun employee cannot use better than outdated quotes in an article to support his "choice" of an operating system.... *shrug*. code in Linux is not tied to whims and fantasies of any particular vendor and a result moves forward faster. Hate Debian go SUSE. Hate SUSE go Fedora. Hate sun and you are stuck with no support for open solaris. The GPL license enables a code commons which CDDL effectively reduces for its own loss by being more lax. While this was done for Sun to stick away its own encumbered code it couldnt open source it has to live with the effects until it realises the drastic effect of the underlying licensing framework which is unfortunate IMO.
Sun did a great job with providing accessibility support on GNOME by working as a contributor along with the community and try and provide support now for its ABI specifications. If it had choosen to work in the same manner with Linux or just try to enable sharing across Linux and within the "open" solaris community it has a fabalous chance of thriving well by immediately getting the entirely OSS community on board. The walls between these two will have to live if and until GPL 3 provides a compatible patent claus.
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That article was very easy to find. Its the very first link under the "Documentation" heading from http://sourceware.org/systemtap. Have any evidence to refute the old article? Good. Tell it to the systemtap maintainers.
Edited 2005-12-20 15:40
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2005-12-18
"SystemTap is still under development and evolving—do not use it on production systems and expect that things will change. However, SystemTap in its current state can still be a useful tool for developers. "
Article is old. Software evolves. Whats your point?