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MIT To Release Next-Generation OS "Cesium"
snowphoton writes: "Slant-Six magazine has an article about Cesium, a fascinating (and soon public) operating system from the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. A virtual machine, an object-oriented database-driven filesystem, and a 3D GUI mean that this isn't your father's operating system." This article doesn't address licensing, except to say that it "is due to be released by the end of the year for free," so it will be interesting to see just what "free" means here. Update: Yep, it's a hoax. Fun! Tricks are neat!
...is unfair to some. :-) Where's the obligatory mirror?
I would also have to agree with that.
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First of all, I don't think MIT is known for keeping people a floor up in the same building in the dark for 8 YEARS on an OS. Why would they?
Second, there are no references to Harvey Dunkirk on G except for someone who died in the civil war.
Finally, a test message to hdunkirk@mit.edu, the email address given on the story page, doesn't exist. In the words of MIT:
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
hdunkirk@mit.edu
(reason: 550
----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to pacific-carrier-annex.mit.edu.:
>>> RCPT To:
... User unknown
550 5.1.1 hdunkirk@mit.edu... User unknown
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So, I think we have a hoax on our hands.
My email is real.
Well Timmy doesn't know for sure that it WON'T be under the MIT license, so maybe he should shut up as well.
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you stupid FUCKHOLES@#@%$@!#$!