> Joyent chose BSD which does containers better than Linux and Cantrill is pissed that everyone chose Linux+VMs

(Disclaimer: I sit next to Bryan at Joyent)

We chose _SmartOS_, a distribution of illumos -- itself a fork of the last drop of OpenSolaris before Oracle closed the gate. It is emphatically not a BSD, though Solaris has included aspects of at least AT&T UNIX and BSD (amongst other things) in its long and rich heritage.

I'm starting to totally love SmartOS. Kudos to you and colleagues.

Thanks for the correction. I should have gotten that right. I don't think the talk mentioned Illumos at all.

EDIT: he did mention Illumos but he was talking really fast.