alt Hacker NewsOxide 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...
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...
After reading that document twice, I'm still not sure why they based it on Illumos. I strongly suspect it's just down to the personal preference of the founders, which is a perfectly valid reason. This document very much reads like "here are the pieces we will use, let's work our way back to why"