A New Kind of OS

trader writes "OSWeekly.com discusses a possibility of futuristic OSes with both negatives and positives. From the article: 'Imagine if you will, a world where your ideas and perhaps, even your own creative works became part of the OS of tomorrow. Consider the obvious advantages to an operating system that actually morphed and adapted to the needs of the users instead of the other way around. Not only is there no such OS like this, the very idea goes against much of what we are currently seeing in the current OS options in the market.'"

Comments

Where's the beef?

[AKAImBatman]

Must be a slow news day. I read through the entire article and I didn't find anything substantial. He spends 6 paragraphs on the first "page" explaining how cool (and "weird") it would be to attach adaptive intelligence to our workflow. (His example is, what if the computer knew when NOT to bother you with email?)

He then goes on for another 5 paragraphs just to tell us that Evil Corporations(TM) could misuse the data about our personal preferences against us. (Shocker, isn't it?) So we might as well forget the whole idea, because the Bad Guys(TM) have it in for us.

*Sigh*

I suppose I could plug my own Linux Desktop Distribution of the Future article to fill space and provide something substantive, but then I'd be accused of shameless self-promotion. So instead, I'm going to bed. 'Night all! :)

Re:I think we'll see more specialized OSs

[andrel]

I agree we're going to see a lot more customized forks in the world of GNU/Linux, but I disagree that most of them are going to be full operating systems. Instead we're seeing a common core with customized faceplates on it. For example what the Ubuntu folks are doing with Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu/Edubuntu. Behind the scenes it is all one OS, but with different faceplates changing how it appears to the user. Debian are doing the same thing.