Bryan Cantrill, ex-Sun dev, ex-Joyent CTO, now CTO of Oxide, is the reason they chose Illumos. Oxide is primarily an attempt to give Solaris (albeit Rustified) a second life, similar to Joyent before. The company even cites Sun co-founder Scott McNealy for its principles:
Bryan Cantrill, ex-Sun dev, ex-Joyent CTO, now CTO of Oxide, is the reason they chose Illumos. Oxide is primarily an attempt to give Solaris (albeit Rustified) a second life, similar to Joyent before. The company even cites Sun co-founder Scott McNealy for its principles:
https://oxide.computer/principles
>"Kick butt, have fun, don't cheat, love our customers and change computing forever."
>If this sounds familiar, it's because it's essentially Scott McNealy's coda for Sun Microsystems.