Comment by aeyes
10 hours ago
Looks like a mainframe computer and their selling point is that the operating system is open source.
I have no idea why you'd buy that over any of the more established players that have a proven track record of being able to support these multi-million dollar machines for many years.
I'd argue there's not that great of a track record, legacy vendors are being legally forced to provide better support for their closed-source systems in the EU because it generally isn't very good. Also you're usually buying hardware and software that weren't designed together which comes with many sharp edges we're solving for.
Why are you answering if you have not looked into it very much?
Its not really like a mainframe at all. Mainframe usually have extreme hardware availability focus with the goal of extreme uptime. This is the opposite of what Oxide offers.
And their OS being open source is far from the primary thing they advertise.
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