Re: Is Oracle obligated to provide the source code of Dtrace for Linux?
From: Ramon F Herrera <ramon_at_conexus.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:33:33 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <aeb474e2-8eba-4161-853b-9b9f88cbdfe4_at_h5g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 10, 12:20 am, Ramon F Herrera <ra..._at_conexus.net> wrote:
> Some people claim that 2 features alone justify the selection of
> Solaris as a server OS for implementing rock solid, high performance,
> enterprise class systems:
>
> - DTrace
> - ZFS
>
> It is far from trivial porting DTrace to an OS, since it is very
> specific and lives in kernel space. It comes with Solaris and the Mac
> OS. Apparently, Oracle is working on a Dtrace port for Linux. Will it
> be available for the rest of Linuxes?
>
> -Ramon
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:33:33 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <aeb474e2-8eba-4161-853b-9b9f88cbdfe4_at_h5g2000yqk.googlegroups.com>
On Nov 10, 12:20 am, Ramon F Herrera <ra..._at_conexus.net> wrote:
> Some people claim that 2 features alone justify the selection of
> Solaris as a server OS for implementing rock solid, high performance,
> enterprise class systems:
>
> - DTrace
> - ZFS
>
> It is far from trivial porting DTrace to an OS, since it is very
> specific and lives in kernel space. It comes with Solaris and the Mac
> OS. Apparently, Oracle is working on a Dtrace port for Linux. Will it
> be available for the rest of Linuxes?
>
> -Ramon
http://dtrace.org/blogs/ahl/2011/10/05/dtrace-for-linux-2/
-RFH Received on Thu Nov 10 2011 - 11:33:33 CST