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!

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Re:Never heard of any such Cesium project...

[Tim Macinta]

However, no such person appears in the LCS directory--and "Support Staff" is listed for some of the people there.

Also noteworthy is that running "finger dunkirk@mit.edu" turns up nothing (you can look up a person's info by fingering their last name at mit.edu). MIT's finger database is usually very reliable and thorough.