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The Role of the Operating System In the Future
liteswap writes "Linux geeks love Linux and Windows mavens won't quit Microsoft -- but will we really care that much whether a machine is running Linux or Windows in future?
As Sun announces Solaris support for Red Hat Linux applications, the need to specify the OS for a particular application will fade away, and the application and the x86 platform become the critical things -- at least that's what this Techworld feature argues..." Maybe a long time from now this will happen - but I don't see it happening RSN.
but will we really care that much whether a machine is running Linux or Windows in future in future?
I dont care what OS is running now, as long as I can read slashdot and look at pr0n!!!!
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*'in future' repeated for emphasis
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that's still having an OS. what you're describing is just a future in which the OS truely doesn't matter. of course, if the "browser is the OS", than it's all about what browser you're running instead.
it'll be great.
the Safai users will be elitist snobs with a prettier, more efficient browser-OS.
the internet explorer users will be clueless noobs constantly suffering from viruses, worms, and broken adware.
the firefox users will be... I can't describe them, because I am one, but you get where I'm going with this.
everything would be exactly the same in your future. exactly the same! AAAAGH!
Like Java? It's standard, it's cross platform, and it's already in widespread use. Plus performance has already been tuned to extremes
Uhh, they tuned it to the wrong extremes. Small size and fast speed is what they should have tuned for not huge swapping and slow response.
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