Wondering If HP Will Release Linux++ This Month

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Wondering If HP Will Release Linux++ This Month

Back in 2014 HP made waves over announcing work on "The Machine" that will be a much more efficient computer design than the status quo and that there'd be a new Linux++ / Carbon operating system. Last year they said in "June 2015" they expected to have out Linux++ for emulating the new hardware design...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HP-Machine-Linux-Plus-Plus

[Zan Lynx]

I was wondering about this too. I was pretty excited about The Machine but we've heard nothing. At this point I predict HP will silently ignore that they ever said anything.


However, they might surprise me so I wouldn't put money on it.

[macemoneta]

HP is 3-4 years late in delivering the memristor technology to market that The Machine is based on, so I wouldn't hold them to a specific month for the OS.

[OneTimeShot]

Don't make fun of the PR department's vapourware. You know that you were meant to have forgotten about this by now...

[Passso]

The video is just amazing, I am totally hypnotized and feel like I must jump everywhere. I really mean everywhere. Even on the roof of my car.

To be honest I understood just nothing about all those blue arrows and circles and squares and boom-chica-chica-boom but I feel energized.

Free drug for all! Thanks HP!

[GreatEmerald]

Aww, come on Michael, you should have worded the headline "Will HP Release Linux++ This Month?" to invoke Betteridge

[eidolon]

How scalable are the efficiencies? Will this enable a full-service cloud that cuts out the middleman? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck before The Machine becomes self-aware and answers the questions of tomorrow today?



Needs more synergy.

Marketing speak is like a used toilet paper Rorschach test.

[sunnystormy]

eidolon The Monkey Island reference is a nice touch. +1

[gilboa]

Can't say that I'm too amazed that HP has yet to live up to the marketing hype.
Back when the original story was released I wrote [1]:

Thus far "the machine" sound like a huge marketing hype based on HP Moonshots with better interconnect technology.
Granted, if HP actually manages to get memristors into production at a reasonable price, this will indeed change the computing landscape, but HP is not known for being particularly innovative company (Even though I rather like their servers and workstations and used many of them).

Time will tell, I guess.

- Gilboa
[1] http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum...825#post597825

[jagd]

The video is impressive! They have good artists.