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Cinder Mobile OS Lets Users Send More Power To Slow Apps

alphadogg writes with this excerpt from Network World: "Stanford University researchers are designing an operating system from the ground up to handle the power and security requirements of mobile devices. The Cinder operating system is already working on an Arm chip, and members of the team are working on making it run on the HTC G1 handset, according to Philip Levis, a Stanford assistant professor. Levis spoke about Cinder at the Stanford Computer Forum on Tuesday. If an application isn't running as fast as the user wants, a Cinder-based phone could include a button to boost the energy allocated to that application, Levis said. Cinder also could allow users to download any code and run it safely on their phones in a 'sandbox' mode."

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  1. Don't they mean GNU/Cinder? by samkass · · Score: 0, Troll

    The GNU/Cinder system, based on GNU/HiStar, right?

    Aren't we supposed to add "GNU/" to the beginning of all OS project names that use gcc to compile or release under the GPL?

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