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MIT To Release Next-Generation OS "Cesium"

Posted by timothy on from the call-the-next-one-nitrogen dept.

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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  1. Timmy.... by keepper · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Ever heard of the MIT license....?

    It's a BSD derived license...

    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.h tm l

    1. Re:Timmy.... by modulus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      BSD = Berkeley Software Distribution
      (or) Berkely Standard Distribution
      (or) Berkeley Science Department

      But as far as I can tell, BSD has never stood for MIT anything. BSD comes from Berkely.

  2. office suite? by c0rtez · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    From the story:

    Cesium is due to be released by the end of the year for free, bundled with approximately 200 software applications including HTTP, FTP, NNTP and SMTP servers; a fully functional office application suite; graphics and audio software; and four video games including CesiumQuake.


    What is this office suite? A completely new one? Will it open my MS office files (and not suck at the same time)? Last time I had an office suite that I liked that wasnt on Windows was ClarisWorks 4 on a mac with microsoft file translators... and even that was only barely tolerable :)

  3. More details - Slant-Six is already hosed... by jefflinwood · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Anybody know if these 3D graphics require special glasses? like the movie "The Mask" with Cher

    Also, I'm posting an open invitation to karma whores to discuss the merits of this operating system with their choice of (BEOS, AmigaOS, OS/2, AtheOS)

    Ciao!

    --
    Tips and Tricks for Mozilla
  4. Wow by Randseed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    After reading that article, I feel compelled to go out and get laid.