Joyent's SmartOS-based cloud environment can run Linux containers more efficiently and securely than Linux can. At least that's the assertion of Bryan Cantrill, CTO of the cloud service provider.

On August 15, at the KVM forum 2011, Bryan Cantrill, VP Engineering at Joyent, gave a presentation entitled "Experiences Porting KVM to SmartOS." The SmartOS in the title is Joyent's illumos-based ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

You are stating this as if there is no difference between the CDDL and non-copyleft licenses, which is not true. Any proprietary software vendor would have to release the source code to any ...

One particularly compelling alternative I've found is SmartOS- has anyone tried it? The only problems I see is the commercial angle (CentOS is perfect for me), the obscurity and having to bug my ...