Come and help us maintain and enhance a fully open-source operating system and cloud stack that has been battle-tested in very large production environments.
There are plenty of interesting problems to solve, all the way from writing device drivers and debugging early boot issues, to writing new UIs in Rust.
I think we're a pretty friendly team to work alongside too ;)
I don't know what it is about #OmniOS (or probably any #Illumos distribution), but it just feels right. I know this is really vague, but that's the best description I could come up with. I just boot it up and immediately get the feeling of "yes, this is it, this is how it should be".
Tonight, I helped find a bug in libreadline, that required looking to the actual POSIX specification to determine what, if anything, is the sane thing to do if your locale is broken.
This is not the YouTube video I expected to make, but I just uttered the following in #illumos:
[2:50:09 AM] <NCommander> This is getting fairly close the eldritch tomes of lore that AT&T used to forge the One Ring deep in the heart of Murray Hill
@jperkin we ship gccgo in Solaris because it has a SPARC backend while Google’s go compiler does not, but that shouldn’t matter for illumos (except for the SPARC forks of Tribblix & OpenIndiana).