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

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cyberpunk|3 years 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|3 years ago

Oxide has bet the farm on it.

pbowyer|3 years ago

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

gbrown_|3 years 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?

RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u|3 years 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.

ksec|3 years 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.