Helios
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
1warn against
Nov 22, 2025first mention
Oct 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“There have also been earlier implementations like this one: https://github.com/benadida/helios”
“It was a cool system, and gets far less credit than it deserves.”
Used it on Transputers for several yearson “Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed…”
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“HeliOS and transputers is one of the most interesting systems ever”
Caveats and dissent
“Why does an e-voting system of an association like IACR not support t-out-of-n threshold decryption?”
Who recommends it in their own words
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Our host OS is Helios (Illumos)”
“we've been running AGENTS.md in production on helios”
Threads where it came up
- Source code of the Estonian online voting system 1 mention
- Kubernetes on Oxide: How Customer Needs Shaped Our Integrations 1 mention
- Obituary: AmigaDOS developer Dr. Tim King has passed away 1 mention
- I've built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of 1 mention
- Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents? 1 mention
- SmartOS 1 mention
Also written as helios. Data: helios.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“There have also been earlier implementations like this one: https://github.com/benadida/helios”
“It was a cool system, and gets far less credit than it deserves.”
“HeliOS and transputers is one of the most interesting systems ever”
“Oxide uses Helios, their own illumos-based distro”
“We have been using Helios voting for some time; this was bound to happen at some point.”
“Why does an e-voting system of an association like IACR not support t-out-of-n threshold decryption?”