A New Kind of OS 393
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.'"
Where's the beef? (Score:5, Informative)
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:It's been done (sort of) (Score:3, Informative)
It's Called Emacs (Score:0, Informative)
And prior to Emacs there were Lisp Machines. From what I know, every function available on one was redefinable all the way to the hardware without needing a restart. Now that's adaptable!
And it was done in the early 1980s too. Microsoft should have stole from MIT and Symbolics instead of stealing from Apple. Come to think of it, Xerox's UI that Apple stole may have been done in Lisp. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Re:I think we'll see more specialized OSs (Score:4, Informative)
^BumP (Score:3, Informative)
You can find dozens of good (many bad) shells for Windows or *nix.
GUI != Operating System