illumos-gate VS propolis

Compare illumos-gate vs propolis and see what are their differences.

propolis

VMM userspace for illumos bhyve (by oxidecomputer)
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illumos-gate propolis
30 6
1,533 167
0.7% 3.6%
9.6 9.1
2 days ago 3 days ago
C Rust
- Mozilla Public License 2.0
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illumos-gate

Posts with mentions or reviews of illumos-gate. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-10.
  • eBPF Documentary
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Mar 2024
    It may become a footnote on Linux, but Linux isn't the only system out there -- and DTrace remains alive and well in many systems (not least in its reference implementation in illumos[0]).

    [0] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate

  • Oxide Computer releases distribution of illumos intended to power the Oxide Rack
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024
    Nobody's paid to have it pass Open Group Unix Branding certification tests

    https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

    so it can't use the UNIX™ trade mark.

    But it's got the AT&T Unix kernel & userland sources contained in it.

    PDP-11 Unix System III: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=SysIII/usr/src/ut...

    IllumOS: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/b8169dedfa435c0...

  • In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
    > it seems like this bug might actually date back to the very beginning of ZFS with Sun

    Looks like you might be right about that. The oldest commit referenced in the fix [0] was from 2006[1], which was just months after Sun released ZFS.

    [0] https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/15571

    [1] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/c543ec060d

  • Getaddrinfo() on glibc calls getenv(), oh boy
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Oct 2023
  • Grokking AVL and RAVL Trees
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2023
    It could be good for in memory stores / log-structured merged trees / other data store applications although it isn't used much now-days. I find them simpler to implement and understand than red-black trees -- although that's a matter of taste I suppose. They beat red-black trees in read-heavy loads (i.e. writes / updates are more costly for AVL trees than for Red-Black trees although they beat R-B trees for read-heavy loads). You can find another implementation in Illumos (an open source Unix operating system) available here: https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/...
  • Classic Unix Code Available as FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software)
    5 projects | /r/unix | 1 Jul 2023
  • OpenIndiana
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2023
    It's high time that the Illumos developers patched https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/... and https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/... to just set the error flag and return, and made the #ifndef TIOCSTI path in https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/master/usr/src/... the only path.

    Because by the looks of https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/blob/7c478bd95313f5f... the C shell was fixed years ago.

  • Can SGI’s Enthusiast Community Bring IRIX Back to Life?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2023
    People are still actively working on Illumos. The last change was yesterday morning.

    * https://illumos.org

    People are still actively working on MirBSD. There's a CVS commit account that can be followed on the FediVerse.

    * http://www.mirbsd.org

    It's DragonFly BSD, not Dragon BSD, and the irony of that is that you missed FreeBSD, which is of course still going.

    * https://dragonflybsd.org

    * https://freebsd.org

    As is GhostBSD, which tracks FreeBSD.

    * https://ghostbsd.org

    HardenedBSD is still going. Shawn Webb regularly talks about it on the FediVerse.

    * https://hardenedbsd.org

  • Linux distributions' relative popularity over time (by Distrowatch hits)
    1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 6 Apr 2023
    Its successor is still out there: Illumos. Though it seems to be mainly focused on backwards compatibility for existing custom applications as it still enforces things like an 8 character username limit.
  • Use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project (2021)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2023
    > Since then, illumos has rewritten all those components

    But apparently kept the same license?

    >> Most of the existing code is licensed under the CDDL and we expect new code will generally be under this license as well.[0]

    [0] https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate

propolis

Posts with mentions or reviews of propolis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-29.
  • Oxide Computer releases distribution of illumos intended to power the Oxide Rack
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jan 2024
    No, it's a VM, running a bhyve-based hypervisor, Propolis.[0] LX branded zones were/are great -- but for absolute fidelity one really needs VMs.

    [0] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis

  • OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Jan 2023
    When we started the company, we knew it would be a three year build -- and indeed, our first product is in the final stages of development (i.e. EMC/safety certification). We have been very transparent about our progress along the way[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7] -- and our software is essentially all open source, so you can follow along there as well.[8][9][10]

    If you are asking "does anyone want a rack-scale computer?" the (short) answer is: yes, they do. The on-prem market has been woefully underserved -- and there are plenty of folks who are sick of Dell/HPE/VMware/Cisco, to say nothing of those who are public cloud borne and wondering if they should perhaps own some of their own compute rather than rent it all.

    [0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holistic-bo...

    [1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-oxide-s...

    [2] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringup-lab...

    [3] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-...

    [4] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/another-lpc...

    [5] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmat...

    [6] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-...

    [7] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar...

    [8] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron

    [9] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis

    [10] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris

  • Oxide Builds Servers
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jul 2022
  • Illumos to Drop Sparc Support
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 May 2021
  • Bhyve rust userspace from Oxide
    2 projects | /r/illumos | 17 Feb 2021
    Finally pushed Propolis, a @rustlang based userspace for bhyve, out the open-source door https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis

What are some alternatives?

When comparing illumos-gate and propolis you can also consider the following projects:

linux - Linux kernel source tree

linux-1 - Kernel source tree for Raspberry Pi Foundation-provided kernel builds. Issues unrelated to the linux kernel should be posted on the community forum at https://www.raspberrypi.org/forum

linux - Kernel source tree for Raspberry Pi-provided kernel builds. Issues unrelated to the linux kernel should be posted on the community forum at https://forums.raspberrypi.com/

omicron - Omicron: Oxide control plane

orbiter - Open-source repository of Orbiter Space Flight Simulator

ipd - illumos Project Discussion

awesome-space - 🛰️🚀A list of awesome space-related packages and resources maintained by The Orbital Index

oxide-and-friends - Show notes from Oxide and Friends recordings

unix-v6 - UNIX 6th Edition Kernel Source Code

hubris - A lightweight, memory-protected, message-passing kernel for deeply embedded systems.

NeptuneOS - Neptune OS: A Windows NT personality for the seL4 microkernel

glibc - GNU Libc