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How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half

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195 points tosh | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.427s | source
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farawayea ◴[21 Nov 24 20:51 UTC] No.42208533[source]▶
Their tech may be more than adequate today. Bigger businesses may not buy from a small startup company. They expect a lot more. Illumos is a less popular OS. It wouldn't be the first choice for the OS I'd rely on. Who writes the security mitigations for speculative execution bugs? Who patches CVEs in the shipped software which doesn't use Rust?
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1. mycoliza ◴[21 Nov 24 22:39 UTC] No.42209429[source]▶
We write the security mitigations. We patch the CVEs. Oxide employs many, perhaps most, of the currently active illumos maintainers --- although I don't work on the illumos kernel personally, I talk to those folks every day.

A big part of what we're offering our customers is the promise that there's one vendor who's responsible for everything in the rack. We want to be the responsible party for all the software we ship, whether it's firmware, the host operating system, the hypervisor, and everything else. Arguably, the promise that there's one vendor you can yell at for everything is a more important differentiator for us than any particular technical aspect of our hardware or software.