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Wow, you got all that from the article? I must have missed the subtext! Seriously though, people have been speculating about a google OS for years and years, a

• frisco 18y ago
  You're absolutely right, it's way more likely here, and that's probably what's going on. Whether there's credible evidence or not as to a Google OS wasn't my point -- it's that the _idea_ of Google doing that wouldn't strike you as crazy, and that just brings up the question "what could they do with it?" Linus did a very, very good job for the single isolated box. A kernel that had very deep ties to a greater infrastructure, a true internet computer, though, would have a huge value proposition for a lot of users, especially in business. I guess this thread could have been better titled, "Challenge HN: Extend the Linux kernel to do low level process splitting and handle a remote file system natively, to have the computer run partially on a distributed infrastructure as needed." I'd be amazed if Google aren't the ones to do this. If they aren't, though, we'll be welcoming some new names to the computing billionaires' club in the next few years.
  • anamax 18y ago
    > Linus did a very, very good job for the single isolated box. Actually, no. Linus solved a much harder problem, the social problem of "freeing" a platform. Technology - not so much, but that's okay because lots of other people had done that.