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Oxide and Friends 7/3/2023 -- Shipping the first Oxide rack: Your questions answered!

Oxide Computer Company · podcast · Watch on YouTube

Startups & entrepreneurshipComputer architecture & CPUsOperating systems & kernels

What it is

A two-hour Oxide and Friends session answering questions after shipping the first Oxide rack. Topics include making hardware as a startup and why Oxide chose illumos.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN cites it as Oxide's own explanation of how they ship hardware as a startup and why they picked illumos.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “Pretty fascinating stuff.”

    Discussion of rack bootstrap time versus traditional setup

    faitswulff, 2023-07 · Recommendation · in “Oxide Computer, an efficient rack-scale computing system”

  2. “Great episode!”

    Episode with funny vendor support stories

    cnst, 2025-08 · Recommendation · in “OpenIndiana: Community-Driven Illumos Distribution”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: oxide computer, illumos, rack-scale servers, hardware startups, q&a

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