Public bug reported:
Dtrace is a very powerful tool in profiling performance for applications
across the user and kernel space, yet its CDDL license is incompartible
to the Linux GPL license, thus cannot be included in the Linux kernel
and as a result, I cannot use dtrace without switching from Ununtu to
one of the OS under Sun. (Systemtap is at this stage cannot do what I
want, so it is not yet a real alternative)
Therefore we should package the kernel of Nexenta. Nexenta is a Ubuntu-
based distribution that uses the SunOS kernel. However the compiler of
Nexenta is too old (gcc 4.0).
We should package the Nexenta SunOS kernel (I think CDDL license) as a
multiverse package and compile this kernel with whatever toolchain
currently used Ubuntu. Then users can feel free to use dtrace (and zfs
etc) without needing to switch distro
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[needs-packaging] package Nexenta kernel as a multiverse alternative
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/299224
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