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DTrace Becomes Usable on FreeBSD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the trying-it-all-out dept.

daria42 writes "A project to port Sun Microsystems' Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) tool to FreeBSD appears to have achieved some initial success. DTrace was open sourced last year and is one of the coolest features in Solaris 10."

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  1. Cool. by grub · · Score: 3, Funny


    Now we can have Netcraft confirmation of the death with a long DTrace log to back it up.

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  2. Linux pwn3d j00 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Dtrace is useless, transparent xterms are the new hotness.

  3. STUB! by corychristison · · Score: 5, Funny
    This description is a stub. Please help extend it by contributing some real information!

    ... sorry. :-P

  4. U send me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    U send me dtrace to hlp me do ur outsourced job plz.

    http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_runner_060 525_h1_b_visa_foreign_it.htm

    U hlp ur old frend 2 take ur job plz.

    Thx.

  5. Re:NOT Open Source (was: GPL) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    is contributed back with DarWin OS

    Yeeps! Don't do that! I got a horrible shiver up my spine when I read that...

  6. Re:NOT Open Source (was: GPL) by DrSkwid · · Score: 2, Funny

    you missed the caveat : IMPROVED

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  7. real men don't use licenses ... by retiarius · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... they use the public domain. public domain is the stem cell
    of licensing, whereby you can take such code and graft any damnfool
    license onto it if you have the inexplicable urge to think smaller.

    oh, and real men don't use 'dtrace', they use 'printf()' --
    if it's good enough for ritchie & thompson, it's good enough for me!