Zentropas direkt r, Peter Aalb k Jensen, beklager aflysningen. At its conference in London this week, Borland said Web service features will be available in the fourth quarter of 2001. We believe it is time to reexamine the operating system's role in computing.
Operating systems exist to create an environment in which compelling applications come to life.
They do that by providing abstractions built on the services provided by hardware. We argue that advances in hardware and networking technology enable a new kind of operating system to support tomorrow's applications. Such an operating system would raise the level of abstraction for developers and users, so that individual computers, file systems, and networks become unimportant to most computations in the same way that processor registers, disk sectors, and physical pages are today. We tested version KDE version 2.2, and also the KDE 2.2.1 update. During installation we encountered some dependency conflicts, but most were unrelated to KDE and easy to resolve.