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In this episode, @bcantrill discusses/rants his observations about Linux based on implementing support for it in Illumos/SmartOS.

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    Regardless of any Linux rants that are in this, I think there are two really important points to reflect on:

    1. A system cannot evolve to some states. Software is not a biological system, we can and should design some things. One cannot “asymptotically approach security”.
    2. Nomenclature matters. People depend on what something is called to find it and understand what it does. A good name can also guide an implementer on how to design something. One place I’ve seen this often is that teams in companies I’ve worked for often like to have really cute names that are completely disconnected from what they do. It makes finding which team can solve a particular problem quite hard.