Uup OS (Project 115)

What is Uup OS?

Uup OS is just a design project at the moment. I've asked myself what the ultimate business OS would be like, and I've been working on designing it. One should note that designing it and implementing it are two totally different things. In other words, I'm not writing code. Further, the design is a work in progress.

The Dream

What if you could harness all the computing power on your network and use it as large distributed computer with distributed storage, processing, and communications? What if it was so easy to use it could turn your employees into data crunching gods? What if 100% up-time was possible? What if technology just worked so your technology staff could focus entirely on new ways to use your technology to help your firm better compete, instead of just keeping your current system running?

There are two kinds of geeks: those that like obscure technical challenges and those that like using technology to get the impossible done. GNU/Linux is for the former. UupOS is for the latter. UupOS is about getting stuff done. It's about efficency, power and reliability. It's about the idea that things don't have to be complicated to be powerful.

That's the dream: create a system more powerful than anything that's come before it and present it to the users in a way that normal people can actually use.

What is up with the name?

Uup is the atomic symbol for Ununpentium, otherwise known as Element 115. Uup does not exist in nature and has never been observed, unless you believe the claims of Bob Lazar. Bob claims to have worked at S4, a facility in the Area 51 test site. He further claims to have worked as a researcher there -- researching alien spacecraft that is. He claims that Element 115 was the fuel for these craft. The special gravimetric properties of Uup were what allowed the craft to travel faster than light and to defy gravity. While there Uup was also refered to as Unobtainium, which I assume was a reference to the fact that they were unable to make or get more. Personaly, I think Bob Lazar is full of shit but it made a great name for the most advanced OS that doesn't exist.

So how do I pronounce it?

I would say the most correct way would be "You-You-Pee Oh Ess." If you call it "You-Up Oh Ess" I'll probably let it slide too... My nickname for it is "One-Fifteen."