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smartos-live
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smartos-live

For more information, please see http://smartos.org/ For any questions that aren't answered there, please join the SmartOS discussion list: https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

For more information, please see http://smartos.org/ For any questions that aren't answered there, please join the SmartOS discussion list: https://smartos.topicbox.com/groups/smartos-discuss

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2011-09-15 13:26:14 UTC to 2024-04-08 15:16:35 UTC.

0122011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20112012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20112011-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

5 sources
peter_d_sherman·Apr 8, 2024
Related: https://www.tritondatacenter.com/smartos Source: https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/smartos-live SmartOS Hosting (Note: I would like to find a more comprehensive list of hosting providers that specifically support SmartOS): https://mnx.io/ SmartOS – The Converged Container and Virtual Machine Hypervisor for the Modern Data Center https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/smartos-the-converged-... Old HN related article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19467667 Danube Cloud (Open-Source cloud datacenter management software (apparently uses SmartOS as one of its components...)): https://danube.cloud/
In SmartOS – An OS Specifically Written for VMs, Virtualization and Containers
notnarb·Sep 5, 2017
SmartOS has code specifically in place for using 'lx' branded zones as wrappers for docker containers (which is distinct from its support of kvm) https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live/blob/master/src/docke... https://www.cruwe.de/2016/01/27/using-docker-on-smartos-hype... It's been a while since I've looked in to it, but if memory serves they are using docker filesystem snapshots without modification and running them on a thin translation layer of Linux system calls to Solaris system calls. Hard to find anything backing this up, so I could be way off the mark as to how it's implemented. EDIT: forgot that's what 'lx' zones are: zones which allow the execution of Linux binaries
In Solaris to Linux Migration 2017
melloc·Jun 16, 2016
Manta doesn't run on a proprietary OS, but runs on SmartOS, a distribution of illumos [1][2]. In fact, almost everything at Joyent is open source, including all of Manta [3]. As for why not anything else, Manta has been around since 2013 [4], before other similar solutions, and allows you to run arbitrary programs on your data. As an example, some of our customers run ffmpeg on videos that they upload, to produce different variants to then store in Manta. [1] https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live [2] https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent [3] https://github.com/joyent/manta [4] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/25/joyent_object_store/
In Samsung Acquires Joyent

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