http://www.osnews.com/story/25206/Smart_Cities_Get_Their_Own_Operating_System Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sat, 25 May 2013 13:43:48 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?491695 http://www.osnews.com/thread?491695 Seriously, this is not even close to an operating system. Who markets this kind of stuff? It makes me so mad... Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Sodki) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?491757 http://www.osnews.com/thread?491757 No - it _is_ an Operating System, we're just used to looking at it at a different level of abstraction. Contrast the many levels of abstraction between the early operating systems and modern ones. This has fewer.

... lets hope that they pick an OS that has a proven track record of running stably and reliably. Such as the distro that runs the Nasdaq Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:51:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (JamesBroadhead) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?492231 http://www.osnews.com/thread?492231 Perhaps it's better to be happy with the name - what would you prefer, that or "city cloud"? ("fog"?)

As for the general idea... for this to make proper sense, it would probably be advisable for us to get over the abomination of suburban sprawl. Fri, 07 Oct 2011 06:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zima) Comments