Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
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Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
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Re: Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
#2Only tangentially related: what I find strange about "Oxide" (styled as "0xide" - the first character is a zero) is that they got very close to actually having a valid hex number in C/C++/Rust notation (0x1de) as a logo, but stopped short...
Re: Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
#3Only tangentially related: what I find strange about "Oxide" (styled as "0xide" - the first character is a zero) is that they got very close to actually having a valid hex number in C/C++/Rust notation (0x1de) as a logo, but stopped short...
yes it's crazy!
Re: Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
#4Only tangentially related: what I find strange about "Oxide" (styled as "0xide" - the first character is a zero) is that they got very close to actually having a valid hex number in C/C++/Rust notation (0x1de) as a logo, but stopped short...
It still amazes me that Oxide actually managed to grab the perfect PCI vendor ID
Re: Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
#5Kudos. I've been looking at that stuff but have lacked the bandwidth to even think about getting it to run (wish I could, really).
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#6Is it weird that I'm insanely excited about Oxide as a product, even though I have absolutely no need or use case for it?
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#7Is it weird that I'm insanely excited about Oxide as a product, even though I have absolutely no need or use case for it?
Same here!
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#8Is it weird that I'm insanely excited about Oxide as a product, even though I have absolutely no need or use case for it?
Not at all; they're building a cool tech stack, but the only thing they sell is super expensive hardware that no individual - and not even that many businesses! - is likely to be able to afford.
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#9Unrelated: But anyone remember xoxide.com? The computer building site from the early 2000s? One of my favorite sites of all time.
Re: Oxide at Home: Propolis Says Hello
#10Is it weird that I'm insanely excited about Oxide as a product, even though I have absolutely no need or use case for it?
I'm enthusiastic about their products and the company in general, too. I don't often feel like I'd like to be an employee, but Oxide sounds like it would a very exciting gig (but I lack any skill set to remotely justify even contacting them-- I don't think they're looking for heavily opinionated Windows / Linux sysadmins >smileTheir gear is targeted at way larger-scale than I'll ever get to use (what with the size of environments I work in). What I hear about their attitudes re: firmware, for example, makes me wish that I could have their gear instead of the iDRAC's, PERCs, and other closed-source roach-motel hardware I'm stuck with.
I'm young enough that I just missed the era of computers that Oxide evokes. I put in a couple DEC Alpha-based machines in the late 90s and got a glimpse of what it might be like to have a vendor who provides a completely integrated hardware/software stack and "ecosystem". I'm sure there was operational advantage to being a "DEC shop" or a "Sun shop". The PC market crushed that old school model by wringing out the margin necessary to make that kind of company work. I'd love to see Oxide make a go of it, though.