Helios

Oxide and Friends

• Episode: Helios
• Website: Oxide and Friends
• Feed URL: https://feeds.transistor.fm/oxide-and-friends
• Duration: 01:47:50
• Published: 2024-02-01 16:45

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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