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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. Re:Never heard of any such Cesium project... by RubberDuckie · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Interesting that there seems to be no other mention of this Cesium OS elsewhere on the web. Anyone see a quick way to inflate web site hits going on here?

  2. Evidence that this is a hoax by yerdaddie · · Score: 2, Redundant


    finger hdunkirk@mit.edu
    [mit.edu]
    Student data loaded as of Oct 29, Staff data loaded as of Oct 27.
    URL data loaded once a month.

    Notify Personnel or use WebSIS as appropriate to change your information.

    Our on-line help system describes
    How to change data, how the directory works, where to get more info.
    For a listing of help topics, enter finger help@mit.edu. Try finger
    help_about@mit.edu to read about how the directory works. Please see
    help_url@mit.edu for questions about the new URL field.

    No matches to your query.
    carsonr@arsenal:~/notes$


    The penultimate line says it all. The email address for the author is bogus, as is the article. Additionally, the LCS folks I know haven't heard about this. Smells like BS to me.