Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Internet Operative Systems

Are they really coming?

GoogleOS (a screenshot)
http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2005/9/5/1130
and (more recent)
http://www.leadstep.com/BusinessBlog/2006/07/the_rumored_google_os.html

A more general discussion of the topic:
http://www.kottke.org/05/08/googleos-webos
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Operating_Systems

Google has a very nice distributed file system:
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/sosp2003/papers/p125-ghemawat.pdf



You can even try a demo version of YouOS: here.

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