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DTrace Becomes Usable on FreeBSD
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."
I see... "BSD is dying" trolls are immortal... Netcraft confirms it!!!
So, let me get this right, the developers of FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD have 0 value in their work. The code they have written in will be ripped off and sold back to them, as proved by ClosedBSD, an improved BSD OS that I can buy.
> This encourages collaboration, and thus helps the advancement of software engineering.
Is this some sort of joke ?
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
The code they have written in will be ripped off and sold back to them, as proved by ClosedBSD, an improved BSD OS that I can buy.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
Yeah, killing the product line of a Linux based router is definitely a win, they won't make that mistake again.
OSX - you seem to have missed the caveat : improved.
License wars, yawn.
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
I don't care about choosing an OS and toolkit for people that suck, I care about choosing a toolkit for me. Seriously. I'm responsible for maintaining the template that our servers (which run a *lot* of interdependent services -- Oracle, Tomcat, etc) are built off of. Finding and fixing performance problems in the template means that the low-level support folks have less angry customers on the phone -- and having the tools to find hard-to-locate issues on the deployed servers means customers' issues, once elevated, can get resolved quickly. Will the low-level support staff understand or use DTrace? Maybe not. Do I care? No. Right now I'm stuck using OProfile -- and while it's a good tool as far as it goes, I've seen what DTrace can do and I want some of that, damnit!
They're not using it correctly, then. The whole point of folks writing scripts for DTrace is to provide the information one needs (as opposed to "vomit"). If you're using pre-canned scripts that spit out everything under the sun -- that's your problem, not the tool's.
I stand by my statement - Church of RMS commandment #1 is that thou shalt have no other licenses other than GPL. Tri-licensing is clearly sinful. It may not be a mortal sin, like the Microsoft EULA, but clearly the Mozilla folks have strayed off the straight and narrow.