Is the OS really going away?
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| The whole open source and Linux movements remain hugely opposed to
| Microsoft -- while, incidentally, they attempt to match the OS
| giant's products with software distributions that are even bigger:
| Red Hat's Fedora Core OS comes on five CDs while Windows XP manages
| with one, for example. Admittedly, there are many, many more
| applications on those five CDs...
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| But even Linux folk are not immune to the siren call of the thinner
| OS -- a call that's been heard many times before over the last 15
| years. One key argument runs that the growth of virtualisation
| means that the OS has less to do. With hypervisors metering out
| hardware resources to virtual machines -- CPU, memory, disk, I/O
| and so on -- the role of the OS is seriously diminished.
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http://www.techworld.com/features/index.cfm?RSS&FeatureID=3168
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