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Re:SmartOS by rjzzleep on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:27AM (#46707876)
It was acquired by Samsung, which is notoriously bad at open source. But the reason why it quietly faded into the background wasn't that. It was that Joyent's ex Sun people had an annoying elitism that made them not care about working with the community.
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Re:SmartOS by ofrzeta on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:52AM (#46708209)
Many/Some of them are now working at https://oxide.computer

https://oxide.computer/blog/engineering-culture

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Re:SmartOS by boricj on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:34AM (#46707971)
It was acquired again in 2022 by MNX [1].

[1] https://www.tritondatacenter.com/blog/a-new-chapter-begins-f...

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Re:SmartOS by ofrzeta on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:45AM (#46708118)
Thanks, I missed that one.
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Re:SmartOS by rjzzleep on Thursday January 22, 2026 @04:05AM (#46716827)
Yeah, but at that point it had lost all the momentum it had, don't you think?
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Re:SmartOS by linksnapzz on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @11:38AM (#46708035)
(citation needed)
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Re:SmartOS by itsanaccount on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @12:30PM (#46708704)
I mean when you're that far ahead of the class is it any wonder?
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Re:SmartOS by solaris2007 on Thursday January 22, 2026 @03:26PM (#46724707)
In 2014 and 2015 I was able to make some great things happen because of the people (mostly former Sun people) in the #smartos and #illumos IRC channels on Freenode. They were very helpful. Maybe this is because I put actual thought and effort into my questions and didn't waste their time with stupid questions (ones already answered in documentation or found in mailing lists).

  https://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
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