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British Columbia) Group Members: Norm Hutchinson, Alistair Veitch, Peter Smith, et al. Kea is an operating system architecture designed to provide the applications running on top of it with the ability to dynamically replace parts of the system. Don't like your file-systems buffering policy? Write your own, the system will replace it for your application! Of course, there are lots of research and design issues over how we do this on a fine-grained scale, whilst maintaining system integrity and efficiency.
KOSH is a new platform being designed and built by the users, developers, retailers and journalists who will use it. It offers the potential for real innovation in hardware and software whilst also allowing for the best use of existing machines. It puts the individual at the centre of the computing experience and empowers them to create, work and play in the virtual world. Built on a firm commercial base, it will be owned by the same users, developers, retailers and journalists that go to make up its vibrant Kommunity. Linux works precisely BECAUSE it is working from a previous roadmap. KOSH is a clarion call to all those who are tired of walking the same old trails over and over again. The plan for KOSH isn't that mysterious or hidden. KOSH goes back a good few years, but has those roots in informal talks, concept projects and general experience of and disatisfaction with the products and projects being developed at that time. The other point to understand is that KOSH is aiming
at creating an open ended virtual environment rather than
a tighty controlled and created operating system. The
whole purpose of adopting an object sea approach is that
third parties can themselves build the objects that
populate the sea. We intend to provide the necessary
structure and services to allow this environment to
exist, and free up the developers to create for
themselves the world that they want. The plan for KOSH is
coming together nicely, albeit in a time constrained
manner, as many of us have other lives. This is one
reason why the option and opportunity for a more
commercial based entity is allowed within the framework
of KOSH, again though in an innovative manner. |
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