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Re: SmartOS
#2I remember several years ago, SmartOS was being mentioned many times on HN.
Joyent, the company behind SmartOS, was since acquired, and I don’t usually see anyone talking about SmartOS nowadays.
Is anyone on HN using SmartOS these days?
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#3> SmartOS is a "live OS", it is always booted via PXE, ISO, or USB Key and runs entirely from memory, allowing the local disks to be used entirely for hosting virtual machines without wasting disks for the root OS.
Does anyone know if something like this is possible with Proxmox? I've got three servers I'm thinking of setting up as a small cluster and would like to boot them from a single image instead of manually setting PVE on each. Ansible or salt is an option but that tends to degrade over time.
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#4I remember several years ago, SmartOS was being mentioned many times on HN. Joyent, the company behind SmartOS, was since acquired, and I don’t usually see anyone talking about SmartOS nowadays. Is anyone on HN using SmartOS these days?
I have a personal box I keep updated running some utility zones and a couple VMs. I enjoy the tooling very much but it's so niche that I'm wary of using it for Customer engagements.
I never used Solaris in my real life but I can understand the appeal for people who did.
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#5I remember several years ago, SmartOS was being mentioned many times on HN. Joyent, the company behind SmartOS, was since acquired, and I don’t usually see anyone talking about SmartOS nowadays. Is anyone on HN using SmartOS these days?
It was acquired by Samsung, which is notoriously bad at open source. But the reason why it quietly faded into the background wasn't that. It was that Joyent's ex Sun people had an annoying elitism that made them not care about working with the community.
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#6I remember several years ago, SmartOS was being mentioned many times on HN. Joyent, the company behind SmartOS, was since acquired, and I don’t usually see anyone talking about SmartOS nowadays. Is anyone on HN using SmartOS these days?
Certainly Oxide computer company has some use of illumos still, which is strongly related to SmartOS
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#8wait this seems totally awesome? i hadnt remembered until reading the comments now that this was a joyent thing, and that somehow it has largely disappeared despite seeming like an awesome way to do all sorts of things.
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#9I remember several years ago, SmartOS was being mentioned many times on HN. Joyent, the company behind SmartOS, was since acquired, and I don’t usually see anyone talking about SmartOS nowadays. Is anyone on HN using SmartOS these days?
It was acquired by Samsung, which is notoriously bad at open source. But the reason why it quietly faded into the background wasn't that. It was that Joyent's ex Sun people had an annoying elitism that made them not care about working with the community.
It was acquired again in 2022 by MNX [1].
[1] https://www.tritondatacenter.com/blog/a-new-chapter-begins-f...
Re: SmartOS
#10I remember several years ago, SmartOS was being mentioned many times on HN. Joyent, the company behind SmartOS, was since acquired, and I don’t usually see anyone talking about SmartOS nowadays. Is anyone on HN using SmartOS these days?
It was acquired by Samsung, which is notoriously bad at open source. But the reason why it quietly faded into the background wasn't that. It was that Joyent's ex Sun people had an annoying elitism that made them not care about working with the community.
(citation needed)