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Sounds interesting and important, but you probably need a new term for this category of software. "OS" is taken, and it means something else.
by hossbeast 9y ago
Sounds interesting and important, but you probably need a new term for this category of software. "OS" is taken, and it means something else.
- xellisx 9y agoShould be OSS. What is strange is that the refer to the core of their software as a "Kernel".
- spalladino2 9y agoOSS meaning operational support system?
- xellisx 9y agoAlso it's built on top of Ethereum Virtual Machine. Quick look at http://ethdocs.org/en/latest/introduction/what-is-ethereum.html http://ethdocs.org/en/latest/introduction/what-is-ethereum.h..., which calling that a VM from what I read isn't screaming VM to me, more like a distributed computing application.
- tom_mellior 9y agoWhich sense of virtual machine do you mean? There are already at least two. One is a virtualization thing like VMware. Ethereum is not that. The other sense is a bytecode interpreter/compiler like the Java Virtual Machine. Ethereum is like that. Except that it duplicates computations across many physical machines.
- m-j-fox 9y agoAlso Zeppelin. https://zeppelin.apache.org/ https://zeppelin.apache.org/