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Helios: Or, a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment.

6 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 5 comments · first 2023-10-26 · latest 2026-01-22

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  1. …is powered by Oxide's illumos build named Helios. https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0026 https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios
    comment by solaris2007 · 2026-01-22 · in SmartOS
  2. Oxide uses Helios, their own illumos-based distro: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios They’ve written up their reasoning in this RFD: https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0026#_comparison_illum...
    comment by tylerhillery · 2026-01-21 · in SmartOS
  3. …on the part that’s keeping your server from catching fire (but that’s just my opinion!). [0] : https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios [1] : https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris/tree/020d014880382d8...
    comment by denotational · 2024-04-24 · in Framework won't be just a laptop company anymore
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    Helios: A distribution of Illumos powering the Oxide Rack
    story by eduction · 2024-01-29 · 257 comments
  5. Actually several docs in their repositories point to https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios which... doesn't exist?? It does seem derived (rather than based) from OmniOS indeed, so little to do with OpenIndiana (…
    comment by g-b-r · 2024-01-03 · in OpenIndiana Illumos Distro
  6. …Helios[1]. Can't wait to read its source code, I was curious since reading this thread[2]. [1] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/helios (if this is not found for you, we're in the same boat) [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33337086
    comment by taink · 2023-10-26 · in The Cloud Computer