FreeBSD gets naked in the Sun

DTrace is a popular tool in Sun's Solaris 10 operating system and ZDNet quoted Sun developer Alan DuBoff as saying that using it was like being in a nudist colony because "There are no secrets". We will have to take his word for it, but if the number of FreeBSD developers with sunburnt private parts increases we will now that DTrace has taken off.

DTrace was released by Sun under the Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL). This makes it a little tricky to incorporate with other Open Source projects as the licence generally prohibits it being used with the GNU Public Licence.

However, it does work with the FreeBSD and similar projects. FreeBSD's had a similar function to dTrace which was called ktrace which, despite having a letter of the alphabet that was higher than the Sun tool, was limited in what it could do.

DTrace is being ported by Devon O'Dell and you can read all about his project and here. µ