In preparation for the first public release under the free MPL-2.0 license, the source code for the assembly tools and specific components of the Helios distribution developed by Oxide Computer has been opened.
The entire software stack of the Oxide platform is open source. The Helios distribution is built on the developments of the Illumos project, which continues the development of the OpenSolaris kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, libraries and a basic set of system utilities.
Among the components included:
- boot-image-tools - tools for creating boot images.
- helios-omnios-build, garbage-compactor - build scripts for base OS packages.
- helios-omnios-extra - build scripts for an extended set of packages.
- helios-omicron-brand - creating an isolated environment for launching the Omicron control web interface.
- illumos-gate - system components from Illumos (kernel, libraries, utilities).
- phbl (Pico Host Boot Loader) - bootloader.
- pinprick is a utility for compressing ROM images.
- image-builder is a toolkit for creating bootable disk images with Illumos.
- helios-engvm - a toolkit for creating an environment for developing and creating Helios images on physical or virtual x86 systems running Ubuntu 20.04.01 with KVM/QEMU.
PS: Support for Solaris 11.4 has been extended by Oracle until 2037.
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Source: linux.org.ru
