Helios

Oxide and Friends · Feb 1, 2024 · 1h 47m · transcript

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

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