[deirdres]

That's covered in Brendan's recent talk at SCaLE 11x, also currently on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5310719

[xorgar831]

Maybe Oracle did us all a favor by effectively forcing the dtrace folks to work on Linux. :)

[bcantrill]

Actually, we DTrace folks left the company[1]; the people doing the DTrace port to Linux are solid engineers, but they're not from the Sun acquisition. For more details on them and on their perspective on the port, see Kris Van Hees's excellent presentation at dtrace.conf last year.[2]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc#t=44m16s

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NElog3MvUC8

[shmerl]

Thanks for the pointer!