Comments on: An OS-less world….

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By: Instant on as a special feature - but why not always? at diversity.net.nz

Instant on as a special feature - but why not always? at diversity.net.nz — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:38:29 +0000

[...] of which remind me of a previous post of mine a year or so ago where I suggested that the future would be OS-less. Dell’s move is [...]

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From the ridiculous to the sublime…. | diversity.net.nz — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:24:12 +0000

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By: Bob agrees about OS’s…. « business, strategy, governance

Bob agrees about OS’s…. « business, strategy, governance — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 08:13:01 +0000

[...] agrees about OS’s…. In what can only be assumed to be a response to my post the other day questioning the neccessity for operating systems, Bob posted [...]

By: Paul Spence

Paul Spence — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 21:11:14 +0000

Great minds?

We may not quite have an “O/S free” world yet, but we do have free O/S. As luck would have it I too have been thinking about this topic and have blogged about it today.

http://geniusnet.blogtown.co.nz/2007/09/09/free-online-apps-whats-the-catch/

The existing hegemony must and will change. It is simply a matter of time.

By: Theuns

Theuns — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:43:38 +0000

A lot less of what you think of as ‘OS’ is what you describe here – kernel. Have a dig sometime – on our embedded devices, the kernel is usually ~2Mb; everything else is there to provide the userspace environment. [In a Windows-centric environment, the same argument applies, but is a little more difficult to spot]

Thing is, all that bloat is what provides the flexibility to do many different things with the same device – if you don’t want that, have a look at something like:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9981902594.html