6 engineers on Hacker News describe using SmartOS first-hand: 5 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I have used SmartOS in production (along with the Triton ecosystem) and found it to be well thought out and compelling, albeit woefully immature and buggy.”
mixed · production · wise0wl · 2017-11-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run a number of physical hosts using SmartOS ... It's easily been the correct choice for us. YMMV.”
endorse · production · cyberpunk · 2017-09-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“SmartOS covers the majority of my general computing needs as well. Anything I write and deploy goes on SmartOS.”
endorse · production · insaneirish · 2013-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we at Joyent are fervent believers in OS-based virtualization -- to the point that in SmartOS, we run hardware virtualization within an OS container.”
endorse · production · bcantrill · 2013-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We used SmartOS (or its predecessor) for 3+ years. The experience was overall very positive and performance was great.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · ryankask · 2012-11-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The beauty of KVM on SmartOS is that Joyent's customers can run BSD, or Linux, or Windows”
endorse · production · dap · 2011-08-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?