OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 18th May 2008 12:59 UTC, submitted by Adam S

Back when Windows Vista was still known as Windows Longhorn, the operating system contained a very interesting and promising feature, a feature promoted as one of the 'pillars' of Longhorn: WinFS. WinFS was a storage subsystem for Windows, based on a relational database, that could contain whatever data you wanted to put in it. Thanks to the relational properties of the database, you could then create relationships between data, or let the computer do that for you.

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by unoengborg on Sun 18th May 2008 21:09 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Look one article down to "

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OTOH I'm worried about implementing semantic attributes at such a high level. I mean, what happens if you log into, say, icewm, or console, instead of KDE, and move or rename a file?

I don't know if the nepomuk developers have addressed this, but one way of doing it in Linux could be to use inotify to trigger some kind of update method in such an event. This would work even at the CLI level.

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