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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!
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Ever heard of the MIT license....?
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It's a BSD derived license...
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
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
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!
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After reading that article, I feel compelled to go out and get laid.
Because GPL isn't free ... while BSD is dying. It's such a quandary, really!
That, my friend, is the Slashdot Effect.
Richard Stallman will sue your ass and send the FBI to blow off your head if you resist, GPL Free?
congrats guys.
'nuff said.
I [HEART] BOOBS
It's Gary Condit.
you mean
I BOOBS
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you want good luck to follow you and your offspring for geneations to come? This troll has the solution for you...
All you have to do is copy this troll onto two to four of the discussion threads of your choice! That's right! Just copy this into a new message and click "post anonymously." That's all there is to it!
Tired of that idiot talking about geek culture! Stick one of these babies on it! And it's good for the economy!
Marge Gentry of Cambridge, Minnesota participated, and the next day she received a large fruit basket outside of her door from a secret admirer. Unfortunately, Marge was hit by a truck the next day, so she didn't get to the Granny Smith apples.
Commander Taco of Hole-in-the-ground West Virginia didn't participate, and he was violated by a group of raging homosexuals. Since the gang was headed by Jon Katz, Taco had no recourse to the law because the entire town knew about their previous relationship. The unfortunate outcome is enshrined forever at goatse.cx.
So if you want to get the fruit basket and not get poked in the bread basket, just copy this troll onto two of the discussions threads of your choice. We could have this place blanketed by sundown!
Timmah! Timmaah Timaaah!
Woah how the hell did you do that?
...A shame this article wasn't written by an honest man...
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All you have to do is copy this troll onto two to four of the discussion threads of your choice! That?s right! Just copy this into a new message and click "post anonymously." That?s all there is to it!
Tired of that idiot talking about geek culture! Stick one of these babies on it! And it?s good for the economy!
Marge Gentry of Cambridge, Minnesota participated, and the next day she received a large fruit basket outside of her door from a secret admirer. Unfortunately, Marge was hit by a truck the next day, so she didn?t get to the Granny Smith apples.
Commander Taco of Hole-in-the-ground West Virginia didn?t participate, and he was violated by a group of raging homosexuals. Since the gang was headed by Jon Katz, Taco had no recourse to the law because the entire town knew about their previous relationship. The unfortunate outcome is enshrined forever at goatse.cx.
So if you want to get the fruit basket and not get poked in the bread basket, just copy this troll onto two of the discussions threads of your choice. We could have this place blanketed by sundown!
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can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...???
they are too busy not excepting submissions today of stories they will be posting next week to do any real research.
i would call timmy a cunt, but the last time i did that (called an editor and even jon-i sucked all the cock- katz a cunt) posts that i had made three weeks ago were "re-modded" and suddenly i lost seven karma points...
maybe i should just AC this...
Because if you're not with us, you're against us!
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This is an obvious hoax, so STOP talking about it like it is real!
You Can Not Stop Us.
We Have This Cesium.
You Download Now.
Are You Afraid?
Death To Windows.
Death To OS X.
MIT IS GREAT.
Hey, you leave Mao out of this, you RUNNING DOG OF THE YANKIE IMPERIALISTS!! And MIT academics will force you to read their water-book, remember it's in your best interests. Obviously you are in no condition to make any reasonable choices yourself, given that you can't tell a real OS from a hoax one.
Remember the Alpine!
Well, the editors may not check for hoaxes, but at least their proofreading is impeccable.
no. fuck off.
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Linux is the finest example of Community Programming to date. Clearly, from the perspective of even the least intelligent of our audience, Linux blows away the competition. I have been running Linux on my Xeon/16 with 128 Gigahertz of RDRAM and it is amazing. I've started masturbating to the Eliza doctor in EMACS. My god, this is a revolution! Software that you don't have to pay for! Who comes up with this stuff?
I'm telling you, and you, and everyone else too: GNU/Linux is the future. If you don't believe me well I think you are probably an "astroturfer" hired by Microsoft. Many people have been hired by The Great Satan (aka Microsoft) to discredit the fine work of Linux Thorvalds and his crew. But don't let the bastards get ya down -- Linux is the real deal, and won't be surpassed by any Capitalist Programme. I don't care if you are from the racist state of Great Britain, or the enlightened state of Israel, the facts overwhelm any opinions that may be present: If you don't like Linux then you are a dirty good-for-nothing Microsoft-loving clone.
And get this...... I hear Macintoshes only have one mouse button! Can you believe that? Those poor ignorant saps. My mouse has six buttons and that is not counting my scroll wheel. Just last week I was play Quake V and some guy kept camping. It was really pissing me off, you see. So, I get my mouse strapped on.. and I assign button six to my Proton Cannon -- and that guy tries camping. Well, let me tell you... after he tasted my proton cannon he stopped camping. Unfortunately Quake V is not Free Software as discussed in the Debian GUN/LINUX Free Software Guidelines, so I deleted it from my hard drive and threw it out the window. I won't allow proprietary software in my home. The capitalist roaders who enslave us with their "intellectual property" rhetoric have to be stopped. By violence if necessary.
I am a firm believer in DIRECT ACTION. A very firm believer. Democracy and direct action -- all power to the proletariat. Only through unity can we overcome the capitalist running dogs. I for one will not allow binaries that disregard Source Code Freedom onto my system, or my wife's system. Yeah, my wife's system. I have taught her how to use EMACS and program in LISP. She says she is at least 100 times more productive under the GNU environment than she ever was under Micro$oft Windoze. And hey, if she ever says otherwise I slap the bitch. Slap her hard. You've got to understand it is all about freedom... From Each According to His Ability, To Each According to his need -- this revolutionary principle is the foundation upon which Free Software rests, and I strongly support it.
We can't just let these Freedom-hating programmers from Micro$oft push us around. We gotta stand united, you know? Don't let the bastards push you around. Am I qualified to make such statements? AM I QUALIFIED??? You thieving moneychanger! I am the most qualified person on this web site. Why? How? I'm a hardcore protestor of the DCMA. The DCMA is how the man is going to crack down on us -- however they have forgotten the Constitution. I know the Bill of Rights by heart. The DMCA wants to destroy Our Right To Keep and Bear Child Pornography, and I'm not going to let big brother strip away our rights. I'm going to stand up and fight. Martin Luther King Jr. wouldn't take this kind of totalitarian bitchslapping from their governmental Noosphere, and I'm not going to either. I've been standing in front of the White House with a "Just Say No To DMCA -- Free SKYLAB" sign for 2 weeks now.
Why, you ask? Because I'm qualified. I'm good enough, and dammit, I'm qualified. I'm an Open Free Sources programmer and I have a right to my opinion. I've been swappin' rhymes with my bro Wesley Crusher, and we both agree that programmers getting paid for their work is morally wrong. So yeah, to say I'm qualified is one thing, but the fact is I'm overqualified. I'm just that damn good. Ya wanna bet? You challenge me to battle? Okay, you Microsoft Sloth -- choose any random segment of the GNU Hurd source code, and I will tell you exactly what file it is from, and who wrote it. Yeah, I'm that good. Flawless victory. Don't believe me? Fuck you. Just try me. I'm downloading MP3s and Britney Spears porn as we speak. They say I'm a criminal, but I'm not the only one. Open the sources. Crusade the Noosphere. Free Rawanda! Don't let the bastards get ya down! Free software or Death. And I'm not joking.
Peace, out.
Eric "Anime Junkie" Hanson
eric@pegasi.net
(finger me for GNU/PGP)