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It is great that the software is open-source, but would be you useful to be deployed on other hardware?

And what would happen if, for whatever reason, a company can no longer purchase Oxide racks, will it need to start over its infra, or can it just build around Oxide hardware?

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It is not likely that it would be immediately useful outside of our hardware, but the main thing they're doing is deploying virtual machines. If they decided to no longer use the Oxide rack they have purchased, they would move their VMs to whatever infrastructure they choose to succeed it.

Yeah, we definitely only intend Helios to run on either the Oxide rack or in service of software engineering work surrounding the rack (that's what we use the ISO installers and virtual machine images for).

If you're interested in a distribution targeting end user use of illumos on servers, I would absolutely recommend looking at OmniOS! Helios is very closely based on OmniOS r151046 LTS, and we use that LTS of OmniOS release directly for non-Oxide-rack infrastructure systems inside Oxide as well.

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