[HN Gopher] Oxide Computer: Docs
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Oxide Computer: Docs
Author : avrong
Score : 70 points
Date : 2023-07-20 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (docs.oxide.computer)
(TXT) w3m dump (docs.oxide.computer)
| EvanAnderson wrote:
| Everything about Oxide's gear sounds like fun. I imagine it must
| be a bit like what working with minicomputers in 70s thru the 90s
| was like.
|
| I did a little work in the late 90s with Alpha-based machines. I
| was impressed at those machines didn't seem like the hack-job
| crap that PC-based stuff was (with simulated chips from the early
| 1980's hiding out in dark corners because "compatibility") and
| still is today. I'm betting working with Sun gear felt similar,
| though I never got to work with it. Just having an honest-to-God
| serial console, as opposed to crappy bag-on-the-side things that
| scrape video memory and pretend to be "legacy" PC input devices,
| would be an amazing thing.
|
| I'll never be able to work with their stuff because I don't work
| with Customers at that scale. I'm also vastly unqualified to work
| for them at their current stage. I suppose maybe someday they'll
| need field service technicians... I can hope, I guess.
| goalonetwo wrote:
| Oxide is an HN darling. I have never seen anything even close to
| negative about them here. I hope someone writes a case-study
| about this. It seems to be a mix of the charisma of the
| team/founders and their product that makes everyone love them.
|
| I would put Wireguard/Tailscale in the same category as well.
| azinman2 wrote:
| But are people buying their machines?
| intvocoder wrote:
| They only started shipping this month... so, jury's out?
| monocasa wrote:
| They recently shipped their first rack IIRC.
| LoganDark wrote:
| no, companies are :)
| HL33tibCe7 wrote:
| fly.io too, although the scales have fallen from the eyes of HN
| to some extent after their repeated outages
| wmf wrote:
| It's cool to see Oxide shipping RIFT routing well before
| networking vendors.
| ConanRus wrote:
| [dead]
| javajosh wrote:
| I'm particularly impressed with their anti-tamper measures. "For
| each server sled, shine a light into the cubby to look for any
| physical tampering or damage."
|
| https://docs.oxide.computer/guides/system/rack-installation-...
| corysama wrote:
| Oxide's "On the Metal" podcast is an incredibly fun deep dive
| into technical issues no one should have to deal with as told by
| people who lived them. "Deep" as in: software DRAM drivers, Ring
| -1 security, bespoke motherboard designs... I only wish there
| were more episodes.
|
| https://oxide.computer/podcasts/on-the-metal
|
| I just noticed they have a second podcast. I'll assume it's just
| as good.
|
| https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends
| helf wrote:
| [dead]
| LoganDark wrote:
| Are these available in text or article format?
| yardie wrote:
| O+F is really good especially if you can make it to the Discord
| Server
|
| https://discord.gg/gcQxNHAKCB
| codetrotter wrote:
| I wonder how much the smallest, cheapest configuration will cost.
| I would really love to buy one of these. But I suspect it will
| cost 100x more than I can afford heh.
| wmf wrote:
| Estimates in the previous thread were at least half a million.
| codetrotter wrote:
| Yeah that's about 100x more than I can afford exactly.
|
| I think I will go back to my little collection of RPi Compute
| Module machines. And maybe some day in the very distant
| future I can buy big boy servers lol
| benrockwood wrote:
| It's great to see Oxide shipping. They have an incredibly
| talented team thats worked very hard for a long time in the best
| tradition of Sun Microsystems.
| 0x6c6f6c wrote:
| > Oxide Computer Model 0, also known as the "0x1"
|
| So is it 1 or is it 0..
| OJFord wrote:
| Yes.
| dist1ll wrote:
| As someone who's only dealt with commodity server hardware, these
| specs make me salivate. And all these boot/management TUIs are
| just so satisfying to look at.
|
| (Sorry to be that guy, but just a friendly suggestion: high
| contrast dark themes are difficult to read for people with
| astigmatism. Especially since this is technical documentation,
| intended to be thoroughly read, you might want to consider a
| light theme toggle.)
| tiffanyh wrote:
| > _As someone who 's only dealt with commodity server hardware,
| these specs make me salivate_
|
| Commodity servers have the same specs.
|
| Here's a reseller of SuperMicro servers, where you can buy
| similar compute on the cheap.
|
| https://www.siliconmechanics.com/systems/servers/rackform
| all2 wrote:
| > sorry to be that guy ... astigmatism
|
| Darkreader is a lovely plugin that might make your life much
| easier: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-
| US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
|
| I believe there is a Chrome extension, too.
|
| It lets you set BG, FG, sepia, total contrast, etc. It is quite
| a neat piece of kit.
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| What's new here
| wmf wrote:
| I think these docs were just published.
| dang wrote:
| OK, let's document that in the title above. Thanks!
| slater wrote:
| Yeah, few days ago:
|
| https://docs.oxide.computer/release-notes/system
| solarkraft wrote:
| Finally I actually understand what they're building. Now I must
| ask: Why?
|
| On-prem servers aren't a new invention. The market seems pretty
| saturated (and shrinking). VMs aren't a new invention. The market
| seems pretty well served, at least commercially. Can the
| integration of both be a convincing enough advantage?
|
| The management UI certainly looks cool; it's something I'd like
| to have on my KVM box at home. I don't see why it'd have to be
| bound to an enormous server.
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