Comment by fnoef

12 hours ago

"OS for work" - like, what does it mean? OS is operating system, it runs on a hardware and provides you to operate the system. I hate when companies destroy the English language with vibe invented terms.

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lern_too_spel  11 hours ago

An operating system manages access to shared hardware (disk, CPU, memory, networking, display, etc. on a single machine OS). MS-DOS mainly handled shared access to disk via a file system abstraction, hence the name. The naming of Cloudflare OS makes sense to me.

  • hashstring  9 hours ago

    It doesn’t schedule tasks, doesn’t deal with physical memory, it doesn’t initialize hardware or interface with it on a low level. This is just an app that lives in user-space, nothing more.

    Calling this an OS is like calling Gmail an OS.

    It doesn’t make any sense.

    But since OSes are notoriously difficult to define [1], half of America added AI slop to diets that were already repulsive to begin with, regurgitates the chyme, and passionately feeds it to their peers, you may even get away with it nowadays.

    [1] https://os.ecci.ucr.ac.cr/slides/Andrew-S.-Tanenbaum-Modern-...

    • kentonv  9 hours ago

      > It doesn’t schedule tasks,

      It absolutely does.

      > doesn’t deal with physical memory,

      Well it sort of does. It allocates sandboxes and schedules apps in them. It handles loading code from storage and turning it into running programs with state.

      > it doesn’t initialize hardware or interface with it on a low level.

      Instead of devices it manages interfacing with external services (Gatekeepers are like drivers).

      I didn't choose the name but I do think there's a fair analogy here even on a technical level.

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TZubiri  11 hours ago

It's a thing chatgpt comes up with, like em dashes or the worde 'delve'. High clanker/vibecoder signal