HP To Launch Linux++ Operating System Next Year

[phoronix]

Phoronix: HP To Launch Linux++ Operating System Next Year

Hewlett Packard is going to introduce their "revolutionary" new operating system next summer that's dubbed Linux++...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTg2Nzg

[magika]

Whole OS designed for vapor hardware. I guess if you are a big corporation its okay.

[nigeil]

That video reminded me a lot of the Jabberwocky presentation from "Better off Ted":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spyJ5yxTfas

A whole lot of fun words, and not a lot of substance (until the end, anyways).

[DMJC]

I'm pretty sure this is going to happen, HP has been working on Memristors for about 5 years publicly now.

[nigeil]

I sure hope it does, I was just poking some fun at the video. It seems like a promising technology, after reading more about the physics of it.

[jacob]

Yawn

Another company who fundamentally "reinvents" something, with the obligatory "quantum leap". It always makes me laugh that they obviously don't understand that a quantum leap is the tiniest leap possible.

[Bucic]

I saw new possibilities for:
financial scam mechanisms like high frequency trading
handling even more personal data for harvesting and processing real-time

Or is it just me...

[dvanzo]

Are we sure?

It is just me or the revolutionary OS is Carbon and Linux++ is only a platform who simulates the environment Carbon will bring?

[eydee]

I bet Linus will sue them for the name...

[ElectricPrism]

HP CTO: We need to make a grande entrance and capitalize on existing brands with this new computer thing. What should we name our product to convey that?
HP Slave: I know what if we call it the HP OS
HP CTO: No that just sounds boring and once we kill of.... I mean upgrade users to Carbon we'll have used that glorius name.
HP Slave: Well Linux is a buzz word lately that everyone seems to take seriously & talk about
HP CTO: Perfect, but how do we capitalize on our superiority over our competition?
HP Slave: Well, I just learned that ++ means next generation or or +1 in that C++ is the next version of C
HP CTO: Perfect, we'll call it Linux++! We're Geniuses and Super Smart! It's a sure way to make lots and lots of money!