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Joyent SmartOS is now being maintained by MNX and the GitHub repositories have moved to https://github.com/TritonDataCenter

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Oh nice. I hadn't heard of mnx.io.

They don't seem to be a huge player like Sun/Oracle, Joyent/Samsung though.

I really wish them well, I loved that stack -- but I wouldn't bet on that stack anymore. I moved storage to FreeBSD, (internet) networking to OpenBSD and VM's live on proxmox when I am running actual hardware.

Otherwise, $cloud.

Oxide has bet the farm on it.

Yeah, but oxide is Bryan Cantrills company, so I mean what do you think they were going to use, BeOS? :}

I was surprised to read recently that Haiku is now being used in some commercial products.

What products? That is surprising.

http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/products.html

TuneTracker is old school BeOS from the old days, this isn't a new development by any stretch of the imagination. They just switched to using Haiku.

It’s still Haiku being used commercially.

I don't think so. Bhyve with a Rust frontend could run on other systems.

What is the relationship between MNX and Oxide? I cant google anything on it.

There's also https://danube.cloud/ which I think is a fork of SmartOS

I saw the MNX announcement the other day and am still confused by it. What did Samsung acquire Joyent for if not the software, or did things simply not pan out and Samsung is now offloading bit?

It felt like an acquihiring to build their internal cloud, with an hedge that if it's wildly successful, may even be offered as a public product.

However, Linux (and containers running on Linux) ate everyone's lunch.

>or did things simply not pan out and Samsung is now offloading bit?

Samsung wanted to enter the Public Cloud Space, ( The kind of business they would be interested in ), but their NAND and DRAM division would suffer order reduction from hyper scalers. In the end they sort of back off this segment of business.

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