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Ubuntu Slaughters Kittens | BSD Now 103

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What it is

A BSD Now episode featuring a long interview with Joyent CTO Bryan Cantrill on dtrace, ZFS, pkgsrc, containers and more. It includes his rant on why Linux epoll is flawed and stories from Sun.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN links it for Cantrill's entertaining epoll versus kqueue rant and his stories, such as bricking a machine with rm -rf.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2015, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “The video is very good and you can follow-up with”

    Follow-up viewing on ZFS and licensing

    protomyth, 2015-10 · Recommendation · in “Things you can do with ZFS [video]”

  2. “Quite a funny and smart guy ;)”

    Interview with Cantrill on his background and Sun in the 90s

    myztic, 2015-11 · Recommendation · in “Run containers on bare metal already [video]”

  3. “There's a good (and wildly entertaining) discussion/rant about it in this BSD Now episode”

    Entertaining rant on why Linux epoll gets it wrong

    Gracana, 2016-08 · Recommendation · in ““Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)”

  4. “I also found the somewhat more casual BSDnow podcasts that featured Mr. Cantrill quite insightful”

    Casual podcast episodes featuring Cantrill

    beefhash, 2018-02 · Recommendation · in “Talks I have given”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: bryan cantrill, epoll, kqueue, zfs, dtrace

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