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Oxide has been discussed on HN a bunch over the last 3+ years (e.g., [0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7]), and while nothing is without its detractors, we have found on balance this community to be extraordinarily supportive of our outlandishly ambitious project -- thank you!

[0] When we started: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21682360

[1] On the Changelog podcast: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32037207

[2] On our embedded Rust OS, Hubris: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29468969

[3] On running Hubris on the PineTime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30828884

[4] On compliance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34730337

[5] On our approach to rack-scale networking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34976444

[6] On our de novo hypervisor, Propolis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30671447

[7] On our boot model (and the elimination of the BIOS): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33145411

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I highly recommend folks check out the Oxide and Friends calls on discord, usually on Mondays 5pm PST. More info: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends

Disclaimer: I am a fan, not affiliated.

Wishing you best of luck.

Really curious to see if in 2023, Engineered Systems still have a market in this world of commodity cloud hardware.

Can you share how software engineers can bring hardware to market? Fabrication, logistics, manufacturing. What should be outsourced? Who did you partner with for what?

Also, congrats.

They have discussed that on their podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@oxidecomputercompany4540

Congrats to the entire team. Being a wayward hardware guy somewhere in telcomland that has followed your progress throughout the years (and having listened to pretty much every oxide podcast), I am genuinely happy for you all.

Hubris, Humility and Propolis are open source. Is anyone else using them?

Could be interesting to port Hubris to x86_64 and use it on bare metal commodity hardware -- specifically to run Rust server code, with perhaps a perf advantage over larger OSes?

Though the biggest advantage to Rust-on-bare-metal would have been running all the code in kernel space, which it seems Tasks don't allow for (in order to provide robustness at the OS level).

Hi, I saw the Oxide Twitter account mention you’d be answering some questions from this thread on this evenings podcast so I hope this gets seen in time. Though firstly I should say congratulations!

Q: Are you shipping Milan racks and if so what does the moving to Genoa entail for Oxide?

Yes, the rack is Milan-based (7713P) -- and good question on Genoa; we'll get into that tomorrow!

Be the outlandish you wish to see in the world. — Not Gandhi

The world is an impersonal euphemism for human culture. All things apart from physics and human nature are dentable.

I'm not even so sure about that last one.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

-George Bernard Shaw

Do you have any liquid cooling solutions collaborators?

Its not liquid cooled.

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