Mastodawn

So .... as a late to the party observer, I'm guessing the poverty response to AArch64 by Illumos based OS'es is a signature of their pending extinction, with any number of BSD types as their ultimate supplanters?

Other indicators like the ceding of DTrace authority rights to Oracle's vultures, heralded by dtrace.org's empty threat to manifest a Linux port source, kinda implies the opensolaris train has done it's boiler, in the yard, with no Joyent rescue shunt evident.

A lot of smoke and steam, yet no tractive outcome.

Would love to be proven wrong, but evidence is very slim, that I can tell. Won't ever be waiting for a vaporware FOSS 0xide offering.

#Illumos #Unix #BSD #OpenSolaris #Joyent

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erstwhile Aug 17, 2025

@david .. older enterprise Ultra Small Desk Top PC's (usdt) dime a dozen from ebay, maybe flea markets pc's are your likely go.

I've a repurposed Optiplex 3060 i7 8700T, micro desktop,, but sata m.2 not nvme, 1 additional sata port doing a 2.5ssd.

plenty of HP Elite Mini pc's too, they call their offerings USFF. Its happily running a #Joyent (#opensolaris derivative OS)

I guess if you climb the model scale a bit, downgrade to i3, or go a bit newer, you'll find nvme, prices are growing because DDR4 SODIMM's are rarer now. so 'Cheap' is relative.

I had to spring for some new, after oem DIMM fried. Cost me $150 for 2x no name 16gb 3200 Dual rank DIMM's. Want play with zones (jails), so I paid.

Focus on the ram size to what you want first, parts vendors are up selling DRR4 for outrageous money when compared to DDR5. It's reflecting in the secondhand PC market pricing at the moment, so don't forget to memtest86 it when it arrives if second hand.

Jonathan Perkin Jun 3, 2024

It has arrived! The best t-shirt ever, bar none.

Thanks so much @brbennett!

This one definitely belongs in the treasured collection, along with some Sun Microsystems and BBC Internet Services ones.

#Joyent #JoyDivision #UnknownPleasures #UnknownMeasures

Chris Glass Mar 10, 2016

In my morning revisit of days in the past, I found these in a folder of snapshots from San Francisco. I was there for work and posted two photos from the day but in hindsight, I like these as well.

https://chrisglass.com/2016/03/09/revisiting-this-day-in-black-and-white/

#BlackWhite #Emily #Joyent #RyanW #SanFrancisco #TJ

Chinatown

Enjoy looking out the windows on every side out here. Unrelated (but near) Chinatown is the Hustler Club. I felt compelled to take a snapshot because of Larry Flynt’s connection to Cincinnati. (He had clubs throughout the area an in 1976 was prosecuted on obscenity charges by Simon Leis.) Such rabble rousing.

Chris Glass

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Nils Goroll 🕊️

Feb 1, 2024

Their DNS delegation is to a.joyent.name. and b.joyent.name.

Neither responds. Their addresses are 64.30.138.21 and 64.30.138.22 from JOYENT-IAD001-01.

So maybe a DC outage?
#joyent #smartos

Nils Goroll 🕊️

Feb 1, 2024

pkgsrc.joyent.com and joyent.com down? Just for me?
#joyent #smartos

: j@fabrica:~/src;

Sep 13, 2023

Wishing someone had ripped off #joyent / #mnx manta so I could just grep a few months worth of logs for this post-incident retrospective.

𝓒𝓱𝓻𝓲𝓼 Sep 9, 2023

#ControlYourself.Inc =
a Quebec corporation headquartered in Montreal. providing identi.ca and status.net and lead development for Laconica / StatusNet "We make Open Network Services - sites that use Open Source software to create and distribute Open Content."

#Laconica =
Open Source Software - Twitter alternative - published 2008. Coinciding with the release of version 0.8.1 in August 2009 the Software was renamed in to "StatusNet"

#StatusNet =
Open Source Software - Twitter alternative, formerly known as "Laconica"

#status.net =
microblogging hosting service, from Control Yourself, Inc. started July 2009. technical provided by www.joyent.com
"status.net is a new microblogging service that lets anyone set up their own microblogging site, based on Laconica’s functionality. Clients can make private microblogging networks for use by a company or community, or public ones that interface with Twitter, Facebook, and other Laconica-based sites. Control Yourself is accepting applications from enterprises, marketing and publishing organizations, and Web communities to participate in their beta program for the platform they call “status-as-a-service.”

#identi.ca =
microblogging platform launched July 2, 2008 by Control Yourself, Inc. running Laconica/ Statusnet "Users can post short messages about themselves to Identi.ca, which are then broadcast to friends in their social network using instant messages (IM), RSS feeds, and the Web."

#OStatus =
protocol - standard for federated microblogging. A suite of open protocols, including Atom, Activity Streams, WebSub, Salmon, and WebFinger. "OStatus enables different microblogging server implementations to route status updates between their users back-and-forth, in near real-time. OStatus federation was first possible between Laconica/StatusNet installations, such as Status.net and Identi.ca"

#Pump.io =
protocol - general-purpose activity streams engine that can be used as a federated social networking protocol - successor of OStatus. Identi.ca, which was the largest StatusNet service, switched to pump.io in June 2013

#Joyent =
Cloud Computing vendor of ‘Infrastructure as a Service’

#EvanProdromou =
WebDeveloper and CEO of Control Yourself, Inc. and status.net