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> Joyent which was an illumos shop And before that, they used to run FreeBSD. Mentioned for example in this comment by Bryan Cantrill a decade ago: https://n

> Joyent which was an illumos shop And before that, they used to run FreeBSD. Mentioned for example in this comment by Bryan Cantrill a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6254092 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6254092 > […] Speaking only for us (I work for Joyent), we have deployed hundreds of thousands of zones into production over the years -- and Joyent was running with FreeBSD jails before that […] And I’ve seen some other primary sources (people who worked at Joyent) write that online too. And Bryan Cantrill, and several other people, came from Sun Microsystems to Joyent. Though I’ve never seen it mentioned which order that happened in; was it people from Sun that joined Joyent and then Joyent switched from FreeBSD to Illumos and creating SmartOS? Or had Joyent already switched to Illumos before the people that came from Sun joined? I would actually really enjoy a long documentary or talk from some people that worked at Joyent about the history of the company, how they were using FreeBSD and when they switched to Illumos and so on.

panick21_ 2y ago
Joyent was using Solaris before Bryan worked there. Listen to the this podcast with Bryan and his co-founder about their origin story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVkIKm9pkPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVkIKm9pkPY This is about as good as you are gone get on the topic of Joyant history.
- codetrotter 2y ago
  Thank you, I will watch that right away :)
selykg 2y ago
Joyent also merged with TextDrive, which is where the FreeBSD part came from. TextDrive was an early Rails host, and could even do it in a shared hosting environment, which is where I think a lot of the original user base came from (also TextPattern) As I recall they were also the original host of Twitter, which if I recall was Rails back in the day.
- throw0101b 2y ago
  > As I recall [Joyent] were also the original host of Twitter, which if I recall was Rails back in the day. Up until 2008: * https://web.archive.org/web/20080201142828/http://www.joyeur.com/2008/01/31/twitter-and-joyent-update https://web.archive.org/web/20080201142828/http://www.joyeur...

panick21_ 2y ago

Joyent was using Solaris before Bryan worked there. Listen to the this podcast with Bryan and his co-founder about their origin story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVkIKm9pkPY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVkIKm9pkPY This is about as good as you are gone get on the topic of Joyant history.

codetrotter 2y ago
Thank you, I will watch that right away :)

selykg 2y ago

Joyent also merged with TextDrive, which is where the FreeBSD part came from. TextDrive was an early Rails host, and could even do it in a shared hosting environment, which is where I think a lot of the original user base came from (also TextPattern) As I recall they were also the original host of Twitter, which if I recall was Rails back in the day.

throw0101b 2y ago
> As I recall [Joyent] were also the original host of Twitter, which if I recall was Rails back in the day. Up until 2008: * https://web.archive.org/web/20080201142828/http://www.joyeur.com/2008/01/31/twitter-and-joyent-update https://web.archive.org/web/20080201142828/http://www.joyeur...