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

cyberpunk 4y ago
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.
- itomato 4y ago
  Oxide has bet the farm on it.
  - cyberpunk 4y ago
    Yeah, but oxide is Bryan Cantrills company, so I mean what do you think they were going to use, BeOS? :}
    - mattl 4y ago
      I was surprised to read recently that Haiku is now being used in some commercial products.
      - azinman2 4y ago
        What products? That is surprising.
        mattl 4y ago
        http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/products.html http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/products.html
        electroly 4y ago
        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.
        mattl 4y ago
        It’s still Haiku being used commercially.
  - panick21_ 4y ago
    I don't think so. Bhyve with a Rust frontend could run on other systems.
  - ksec 4y ago
    What is the relationship between MNX and Oxide? I cant google anything on it.
gbrown_ 4y ago
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?
- ksec 4y ago
  >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.
- RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 4y ago
  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.
pbowyer 4y ago
There's also https://danube.cloud/ https://danube.cloud/ which I think is a fork of SmartOS

cyberpunk 4y ago

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.

itomato 4y ago
Oxide has bet the farm on it.
- cyberpunk 4y ago
  Yeah, but oxide is Bryan Cantrills company, so I mean what do you think they were going to use, BeOS? :}
  - mattl 4y ago
    I was surprised to read recently that Haiku is now being used in some commercial products.
    - azinman2 4y ago
      What products? That is surprising.
      - mattl 4y ago
        http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/products.html http://www.tunetrackersystems.com/products.html
        electroly 4y ago
        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.
        mattl 4y ago
        It’s still Haiku being used commercially.
- panick21_ 4y ago
  I don't think so. Bhyve with a Rust frontend could run on other systems.
- ksec 4y ago
  What is the relationship between MNX and Oxide? I cant google anything on it.

gbrown_ 4y ago

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?

ksec 4y ago
>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.
RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u 4y ago
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.

pbowyer 4y ago

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