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The Trouble with Tribbles...
Personal blog · ptribble.blogspot.comsystemsprogramming
The Trouble with Tribbles... is a personal blog at ptribble.blogspot.com about systems and programming. Since 2009, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-03-15, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Peter Tribble's blog for posts on Solaris and OpenSolaris, including Java support on Solaris and the OpenSolaris governing board. Commenters cite it as a source on those topics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
https://ptribble.blogspot.com/2021/12/keeping-java-alive-on-... says upstream has removed Solaris Java support for the newer versions.
Comment linking /2021/12/keeping-java-alive-on-illumos.html
on “ZFSBootMenu – A boot loader to manage ZFS boot environments for Linux”Submitted The cost of cloud as a story · 134 points
HN discussionOr it could be the start of the community building something from the Solaris source? Here's a blog post from Peter Tribble, one of the ex-OGB members: http://ptribble.blogspot.com/2010/08/new-light.html
Comment linking /2010/08/new-light.html
on “OpenSolaris Governing Board Resigns”Submitted Solaris 10 Zones on Illumos Tribblix as a story · 74 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tweaking binaries with elfedit as a story · 43 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenSolaris: Oracle, where art thou? as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Keeping Your Stuff to Yourself as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted Opening up some details of OpenSolaris under Oracle as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted OpenSolaris Governing Board member on the OGB's threatened dissolution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is this thing called AI worthwhile? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When ZFS Was Young as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whither open source? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything Virtual - criticism of current trends in virtualisation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zones, Way Back When as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The State of Tribblix, 2020 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up an Etcd cluster on Tribblix as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Whither the desktop? (2006) as a story · 1 points
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