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Re:Oxide Computer releases distribution of illumos intended ... by steveklabnik on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:45PM (#39184368)
I certainly understand that strategy generally, see also Adobe giving Photoshop licenses to students back in the day so that they'd be familiar professionally. It's just that doing so amounts to building an entirely new product, and as a relatively young startup, focus is more important. We're going deep, not wide. Someday :)

> (Also, I get the idea behind two SKUs, but can buyers at least configure storage and compute separately? Different workloads need radically different ratios.)

Right now, this early: no. Sleds have compute and storage located together, so the unit of customization is currently "number of sleds in the rack" which according to https://oxide.computer/product/specifications apparently is currently three, not two, at the moment: 16, 24 or 32 sleds.

You are right that these need to be different for certain customers and workloads, we just aren't ready to support those just yet. We'll get there. Same issue, different aspect.

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Re:Oxide Computer releases distribution of illumos intended ... by newsclues on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:32PM (#39184793)
Until then maybe sell a few to schools to provision for student access?

A future of developers and CTOs who grew up with Oxide!

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Re:Oxide Computer releases distribution of illumos intended ... by steveklabnik on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:56PM (#39184980)
My friends and I had a small server set up in college, and those were some of the best times of those years. :D
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Re:Oxide Computer releases distribution of illumos intended ... by amluto on Monday January 29, 2024 @10:03PM (#39185932)
On reading the specs, you’re using 2.91TiB U.2 drives. On the list of “oh my gosh too much engineering and too many stock keeping units,” allowing them to be swapped for the much larger U.2 devices one can buy now seems fairly easy. In case there’s a potential thermal issue, most NVMe drives I’ve checked have active power states that are a bit slower but have reduced power consumption.

But Oxide is small and shouldn’t listen to me unless a customer asks for this.

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Re:Oxide Computer releases distribution of illumos intended ... by mattclarkdotnet on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:23PM (#39186373)
See also Cloud Foundry, where the late arrival of something devs could use on a laptop was probably key to its failure to capture the market for PaaS.
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