There does seem to be some work on micro-kernals, environments that run
on bare iron (e.g., Erlang on bare iron has potential), and continuing
work on cloud stacks. But still... not as much innovation as one might
hope for. And my personal bugaboo - work on single-system-image
clusters has basically disappeared.
Miles FIdelman
On 9/13/17 1:01 PM, Peter Tribble wrote:
In my OpenSolaris t-shirt collection, I have one with the slogan:
"Innovation happens everywhere"
I'm not sure this is *entirely* true; Solaris 10 was a massive nexus
of innovation that has proliferated out to other operating systems
over the last decade. Frankly, there's not much else been happening
in systems development.
From what I can see, between the cloying boredom of Linux monoculture
and the dead hand of POSIX "standardisation", systems have stagnated.
Even in illumos, we're largely doing a bit of light gardening - a bit
of weeding here, a bit of pruning there, replanting the odd bush. But
no real landscaping is being done.
Which begs the question - is systems innovation done and dusted?
Or is there more to come?
And if there is more, what sort of new features are wanted?
At which point I open up the floor to anyone who wants to contribute.
(Note: I'm not talking about a gaps analysis. We [illumos] need more
drivers, more applications ported. We already know that, and it's just
copying, not innovation. So there is an interesting subject there, but
if someone wants to follow that then please create a new thread.)
Cheers,
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-Peter Tribble
http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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