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Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer by nosequel on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:45PM (#38030023)
If you have a bug in how a lambda function is run on AWS, do you find yourself looking for the bug in firecracker? It is open source, so you technically could, but I just don't see many customers doing that. Same can be said about KNative on GCP.

Their choice in foundation OS (for lack of a better term) really should not matter to any customer.

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Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer by yencabulator on Thursday October 26, 2023 @03:01PM (#38030260)
I am unable to do so.

Now imagine a multi-million dollar mission critical pile of computers running on premises, and your sysadmin being able to do so.

Oxide is closer to a rack of Supermicros than AWS.

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Re:Oxide: The Cloud Computer by sanderjd on Friday October 27, 2023 @05:09PM (#38043971)
Ok but then that is purely additive then, right? Like, "have to find someone with Illumos expertise to fix something that was never intended to be customer-facing" may not be easy, but is still easier than the impossibility of doing the same thing on AWS / Azure / Google Cloud.
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