Oxide is shipping the whole rack at the moment. This is something you buy as a total appliance, not like a single 2u system, so it has to have all of the rack infrastructure. They have hinted at a roadmap of smaller formfactors than the big boy, but that is not in the near future. -Jordan
@@jamesm5192 It runs their own version of Illumos, but as the user you're not interacting with that. You're interacting with their API-driven control plane, just as you would on AWS or similar systems. You use that to feed in virtual machine images to boot whatever you want for whatever usecase you want.
You do have vendor lock-in, but not by design, since pretty much all of their stuff is open source. The reason for it is simply that these are not IBM PCs at their core, practically everything about the computer architecture that could be redesigned from first principles in a comprehensive way, has been. Just the fact that they can boot a modern AMD x86 without a proprietary BIOS or UEFI is a miracle.
@@coolbugfacts1234 BIOS was never there to boot the CPU, the CPU ran BIOS code to initialize the rest of the hardware on the motherboard. And yes, BIOS was always PC-bucket garbage.
