In today's marketplace, operating systems are considered a commodity. What in the world would possess someone to roll a new distribution? In this talk, I'll walk through the constraints, the thought process, the plans, and the implementation of the open-source Illumos-based OmniOS operating system distribution. Beyond the motivation, I will talk about the hard numbers of what it cost and what we saved and share some subjective ideas about whether it was all worth it. OmniTI developed OmniOS after collecting 15 years of experience managing almost every production operating system available during its life for clients in vastly ranging industries.
A widely respected industry thought leader, Theo Schlossnagle is the author of Scalable Internet Architectures (SAMS) and a frequent speaker at worldwide IT conferences. He was also the principal architect of the Momentum mta, which is now the flagship product of OmniTI’s sister company, Message Systems. Born from Theo’s vision and technical wisdom, this innovation is transforming the email software spectrum. Theo is a computer scientist in every respect. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in computer science with a focus on graphics and randomized algorithms in distributed systems, he went on to research resource allocation techniques in distributed systems during four years of post-graduate work. Theo is a member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. He serves on the editorial board of the ACM’s Queue Magazine.
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BibTeX
@conference {255712,
author = {Theo Schlossnagle},
title = {{OmniOS}: Motivation and Design},
year = {2012},
address = {San Diego, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec
}
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