Oxide and Friends: Helios [audio]
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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?!)