Upstreaming Code and the Challenges it Presents

Bryan and Adam are joined by Oxide colleagues Josh Clulow, Patrick Mooney, and Steve Klabnik to discuss Helios, the operating system that runs on the Oxide Rack. Helios is a distro of illumos (derived from OpenSolaris, derived from Solaris, etc.). What's a distro? Why did Oxide choose illumos? Plenty of cross-generational appeal in this episode!

Some of the topics we hit on, in the order that we hit them:

• The Helios github repo
• Hacker News thread its release
• OmniOS
• Rust Tier 2 support
• Bryan's talk on holistic boot
• Oxide and Friends: Holistic Boot
• Oxide and Friends: Shipping Rack 1
• The Quality Death Spiral
• Oxide's "St. Louis" branch of illumos
• Bryan's sleeper bug from 1991
• illumos books (How's this for some SEO?!)

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