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Oxide and Friends: Helios [audio] (oxide.computer)
4 points by mroche on Feb 2, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Show Notes

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Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Patrick Mooney, and Steve Klabnik to discuss Helios, the operating system that runs on the Oxide Rack. Helios is a distro of illumos (derived from OpenSolaris, derived from Solaris, etc.). What's a distro? Why did Oxide choose illumos? Plenty of cross-generational appeal in this episode!

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

  - The Helios github repo
  - Hacker News thread its release
  - OmniOS
  - Rust Tier 2 support
  - Bryan's talk on holistic boot
  - Oxide and Friends: Holistic Boot
  - Oxide and Friends: Shipping Rack 1
  - The Quality Death Spiral
  - Oxide's "St. Louis" branch of illumos
  - Bryan's sleeper bug from 1991
  - illumos books (How's this for some SEO?!)




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