Web Os
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 PURPOSE
Open Web OS, formerly HP Web OS, Palm Web OS or simply Web OS, is a mobile operating system based on a Linux kernel, initially developed by Palm, which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard .The official name is web OS, uncapitalised. But Web OS is also us.Palm launched Web OS in January 2009. Various versions of Web OS have been featured on several devices, including Pre, Pixy, and Veer phones and the HP Touchpad tablet.After the failure of the HP Touchpad and the proposed sale of the HP Personal Systems Group, HP announced plans to release an open source version of the Web OS platform, named Open Web OS. Code specific to the existing devices was released as Web OS Community Edition (CE), with support for the existing HP hardware. Open Web OS includes open source libraries designed to target a wider range of hardware.
1.2 BACKGROUND
Web operating system and web OS are met computing terms that refer to network services for Internet scale distributed computing, as in the Web OS Project at UC Berkeley, and the WOS Project. In both cases, the scale of the "web operating system" extends across the Internet, like the web.
However, the terms web OS and web operating system have been employed more broadly and with far greater popularity in the context of "the web as in HTTP", and for many meanings ranging from singular systems to collections of systems. In April 2002, Tim O 'Reilly spoke of "the emergent Internet operating system" as an open collection of Web services Common to uses for collections of systems, a web operating system is distinct from Internet operating systems in that it is independent of the traditional individual computer operating system. This conception of the system reflects an evolution of research in the field of operating systems into the increasingly minimized (for example, Tiny OS and Exokernel) and distributed (for example, Inferno), and for distributed systems increasingly defined in terms of
INTRODUCTION
1.1 PURPOSE
Open Web OS, formerly HP Web OS, Palm Web OS or simply Web OS, is a mobile operating system based on a Linux kernel, initially developed by Palm, which was later acquired by Hewlett-Packard .The official name is web OS, uncapitalised. But Web OS is also us.Palm launched Web OS in January 2009. Various versions of Web OS have been featured on several devices, including Pre, Pixy, and Veer phones and the HP Touchpad tablet.After the failure of the HP Touchpad and the proposed sale of the HP Personal Systems Group, HP announced plans to release an open source version of the Web OS platform, named Open Web OS. Code specific to the existing devices was released as Web OS Community Edition (CE), with support for the existing HP hardware. Open Web OS includes open source libraries designed to target a wider range of hardware.
1.2 BACKGROUND
Web operating system and web OS are met computing terms that refer to network services for Internet scale distributed computing, as in the Web OS Project at UC Berkeley, and the WOS Project. In both cases, the scale of the "web operating system" extends across the Internet, like the web.
However, the terms web OS and web operating system have been employed more broadly and with far greater popularity in the context of "the web as in HTTP", and for many meanings ranging from singular systems to collections of systems. In April 2002, Tim O 'Reilly spoke of "the emergent Internet operating system" as an open collection of Web services Common to uses for collections of systems, a web operating system is distinct from Internet operating systems in that it is independent of the traditional individual computer operating system. This conception of the system reflects an evolution of research in the field of operating systems into the increasingly minimized (for example, Tiny OS and Exokernel) and distributed (for example, Inferno), and for distributed systems increasingly defined in terms of
References: 7. Tim O 'Reilly. "Inventing the Future". http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/09/future.html. 8. Chang, Emily (2006-08-07)