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The Future Might Be BIOS and Browsers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the heard-this-before dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Few in the open source community have welcomed online applications like Google Docs with open arms, but Keir Thomas claims he's found a way forward — and it's one that involves exclusively open source. He reckons BIOS-based operating systems are the future, because they will alter the way users think about their computers. FTA: 'The key breakthrough is ideological: BIOS-based operating systems demote the operating system to just another function of the hardware. It breaks the old mindset of the operating system being a distinct platform, or an end in itself. The operating system becomes part of the overall computing appliance. This allows the spotlight to focus on online applications.'"

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  1. store it on the HDD! by ZyBex · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why not just store the BIOS on the hard disk? That way it has plenty of space to grow and can be updated easily!

    Oh wait...

    1. Re:store it on the HDD! by VampireByte · · Score: 5, Funny

      If the latest industry magazines are correct, the BIOS is going to be stored in the cloud.

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      Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch.

    2. Re:store it on the HDD! by alta · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wow, that's a great IDEA. Then all we need is some sort of Basic Input/Output system to load up the bios for us!

      Why didn't someone think of that before???

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      Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
  2. so we're saying my future by nimbius · · Score: 4, Funny

    is in chip-design or network communications...great...thanks alot for this dead-end career GNU/LINUX!!

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    Good people go to bed earlier.
  3. Re:This is true for some value of by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But Firefox still works.

    There's no place like 127.0.0.1!