FreeBSD Co-founder Jordan Hubbard Leaves Apple To Join iXsystems

New submitter transam writes "After a long stint at Apple doing all kinds of Unix-y goodness, Jordan Hubbard has moved onto iXsystems to lead engineering and development, including heading up the FreeNAS project. Apple's loss is their gain."

Comments

AHA!

[shentino]

No WONDER Apple is a cult, one of the executives has a scientologist for a brother!

You just noticed?

[Desler]

Good ole Slashdot. 4 weeks behind the times.

http://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/06/jordan-hubbard-leaves-apple-to-become-cto-at-ixsystems/

Grats

[m.dillon]

Should be nice taking a break from Apple's high-stress environment. IX, maybe do a few apps on the side... there ya go!

-Matt

Re:Grats

[m.dillon]

Next time I'll just raise my little finger and then the angry comments will *really* start to fly :-)

In anycase, my brother worked for Apple for a number of years and it can be quite a high-stress environment. Probably the highest-stress environment of any company, anywhere. But ex-Apple employees often take away a good chunk of change plus lots of great ongoing contacts which works naturally well when moving onto to another job that might then do (more) business with Apple in the future. The Apple ecosystem extends far beyond the consumer!

-Matt

Re:Grats

[Anonymous Coward]

What would a guy named m.dillon know about BSD anyway?

Thous shalt not make a machine in the likeness...

[wbr1]

Nothing good ever came from iX, or Richese for that matter. The Tleilaxu however... I need a few Gholas.

Re:I love when layers...

[The-Pheon]

Cisco does own it. You are wrong.

http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco_and_apple_agreement_on_ios_trademark/

Re:Netcraft confirms it...

[Nerdfest]

I wish they'd stop adding proprietary extensions to open protocols and using proprietary connectors when standards are available. Unfortunately they seem to want to force people to keep using their products rather than *wanting* to use their products.

Re:Thous shalt not make a machine in the likeness.

[Nerdfest]

Well, you came to the right place.

Good, someone needs to fix FreeNAS

[ModernGeek]

FreeNAS is kludgy and broken. The idea is noble, and the feature set is great. The implementation just needs some talent to pull the user interface and backend closer together, and to fix the bugs under the hood so that it can become a respectable solution. If it could end up in hardware that's available off the shelf, I could see some vendors willing to fork over some cash to the project as well.

Re:Good, someone needs to fix FreeNAS

[CAIMLAS]

As someone who uses FreeNAS and who has many customers running it in high demand environments, I'm going to have to disagree with you.

I've had no problem replacing the latest generation, $80k NetApps with comparable $20k redundant TrueNas systems from ixSystems and seeing massive gains in performance at the same time, so I'm really curious where you get "kludgy" and "broken", nevermind "bugs under the hood".

Oh, upon further reading, it appears you really didn't understand what we're talking about here, so my apologies if I come off as an ass. We're talking about ix. You know, a vendor which has a branded version of FreeNAS called TrueNas, which they sell on their own hardware?

FreeNAS runs just fine on pretty damn near anything "off the shelf" of decent quality. You know, pick pretty much any Supermicro board. (You're going to run into problems with shitty Broadcom et al based systems, but then you're an idiot, and are going to run into those problems with pretty much everything but Windows...)

Re:Good, someone needs to fix FreeNAS

[BitZtream]

As someone who uses FreeNAS and who has many customers running it in high demand environments, I'm going to have to disagree with you.

Speaks more of your lack of experience than FreeNAS itself.

FreeNAS has felt kludgy and broken for years now. Perhaps just because you work with even shittier and ridiculously expensive NetApp crap, you think that FreeNAS is impressive, but its really not.

I dropped FreeNAS some time ago, its ZFS support (due to using old releases of FBSD) was asstastic, and as such, performance was absolutely pathetic. Unless they've bumped up to AT LEAST 9.1-STABLE, ZFS performance is still going to be asstastic, forget about how shitty the UI is for it.

In the end, you're better off just using a bare install of FBSD and the CLI to setup a NAS. Using it for replacing high end NetApp gear? No fucking way.

Note: All my NAS equipment is FreeBSD based now, none of it is FreeNAS.

Great idea, shitty shitty shitty implementation.

JKH on the other hand, is one person I trust to make it not suck anymore.