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Will hypervisors make Ubuntu and other Linux operating systems obsolete?
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| I think this is feasible. After all, consider successful projects like WINE –
| which allows a wide range of Microsoft Windows applications to execute on top
| of Linux. The way this is achieved is by providing Linux equivalents for the
| Windows operating system functions that the software applications call.
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| In the same way, the virtual environments of the future will provide their
| own equivalents for the major functions that an operating system performs,
| particularly where related to hardware. The virtual environment is already
| providing a layer whereby it exposes its fictional set of devices to the
| virtual computer, and translates any calls to these into appropriate calls to
| the genuine hardware. Why bother having an operating system sit between this
| layer and the applications on the virtual computer? Why not just let the
| virtual machine take the application request in the first instance?
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19485/1168/1/1/
Yesterday:
Windows will be killed by virtual appliances: VMware exec
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| Large commercial operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will no
| longer exist within five to ten years, according to a senior VMware
| executive. Instead there will only be very thin open source operating systems
| supporting virtual appliances.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19483/1168/
Related:
VMware Predicts Death To Operating Systems
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| Mendel Rosenblum envisions a world run by virtualization appliances where
| software makers wouldn't need a bulky or complex OS.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201311257
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