Windows? Linux? The OS is dead, killed by the cloud
Internet speeds currently are not good enough for 100% transfer to cloud. And what if you are offline? and technically, you still need to load your system up and then load the cloud... so its still an OS.
At least the cloud will run on linux or bsd.
Killed for whom? I still and likely always will require an operating system to complete my work.
The other people's computer still run an OS though.
>Internet speeds currently are not good enough for 100% transfer to cloud.
Only in America fuckface.
>connecting to the (((internet)))
Remember kids, the almighty (((cloud))) will make our lives so much better! We wont have to pay for windows any more, isn't that great!!
>pay for windows
>not ûnderstanding my post
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;-;
>upload all my VIP legal pornography to the cloud
>tfw a worldwide EMP erases it
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
>Cloud
We're valleys away from ready
HALP US M8
Your material belongs to the cringe thread for the Stallmanites. The FSF stickers are inflammatory.
>Cloud will replace OS
>Cloud needs OS on client for it to be accessed
Yeah, because it's a good idea to centralize large numbers of people's computing into a service which might not exist tomorrow, effectively bricking their cloudbooks or phones or whatever they're using unless they are able to change the operating system.
Not to mention the millions of gigabytes of files becoming lost to history permanently should a cloud service decide to close doors. Found a rare image, video or audio file on the internet and stored it in your cloud storage for safe keeping? Too bad! The company went bust so now the file is no longer stored.
>And what if you are offline?
that hasn't happened to me since 2007
> FreeBSD
enjoy your 0days.
That why it will fail no does shit unless America does it.
Did none of you actually skim the article? Not once was the claim made that the (((cloud))) would replace your desktop OS, just that developers will stop caring about what platform they develop on because of services like Lambda/Azure.
The Cloud is just a synonym for "someone elses computer"
Which invariably runs an OS of some sort