LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

What this video covers

Bryan Cantrill's LISA11 talk on how illumos arose after Oracle closed OpenSolaris. It covers the history of Sun, ZFS, DTrace and Zones, and the diaspora of kernel engineers, with a famous rant about Oracle and Larry Ellison.

Why it surfaced in Hacker News

HN points to it as the definitive, entertaining account of Sun's fate under Oracle, and quotes its Ellison lawnmower advice whenever Oracle behaves badly.

Recommendation context

Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.

“His Larry Ellison rant makes me smile”

“If you're interested how it came to be check out this epic talk by Bryan Cantrill”

“goes into a brutally honest rant against Oracle.”