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Submission + - If you could assemble a "FrankenOS" what parts would you use?

Submitted by rnws on Sunday July 05, 2015 @04:45PM

rnws writes: While commenting about log-structured file systems in relation to flash SSD's, I referenced Digital's Spiralog [pdf], released for OpenVMS in 1996. This got me thinking about how VMS to this day has some of, if not the best storage clustering (still) in use today. Many operating systems have come and gone over the years, particularly from the minicomputer era and each had usually had something unique it did really well. If you could stitch together your ideal OS, then which "body parts" would you use from today and reanimate from the past?

I'd probably star with VMS's storage system, MPE's print handling, OS/2's Workplace Shell, AS/400's hardware abstraction and GNU's Bash shell. What would you choose?

Submission + - Court orders two sisters must receive MMR vaccine (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by rnws on Sunday October 13, 2013 @03:15PM

rnws writes: The BBC reports that an English High Court judge has ruled that sisters aged 15 and 11 must have the MMR vaccine even though they and their mother do not want it. The High Court decision, made last month, came after the girls' father brought a case seeking vaccination.
When outlining her decision in the latest case, Mrs Justice Theis emphasised it was a specific case "only concerned with the welfare needs of these children", but lawyers say as one of a series it confirms there is no longer any debate about the benefits of the vaccine.

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