The ‘Rebuntu’ Project and Thoughts Around Behavior and Position of Modern Operating Systems
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- Don’t Anthropomorpise Me: Electronic Performance Tools, Automatons and The Vanity Apocalypse
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- The ‘Rebuntu’ Project and Thoughts Around Behavior and Position of Modern Operating Systems
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Panel: Don’t Anthropomorpise Me: Electronic Performance Tools, Automatons and The Vanity Apocalypse
Any modern computer Operating System (OS) is designed with self-maintenance and self-support features under the hood. OS monitors the health of hardware it runs on, activity of external periphery, user input; it determines the necessary processing and handles its own state. For example – in case of a severe error or overload an OS can decide to reboot a computer; other time, when user program uses too much memory an OS would terminate the program.?My interest here is to explore behavior of OSes under different conditions and circumstances, observe the methods they utilize for self-maintenance, security and control. Is User program preferable to System process from the perspective of Linux kernel? Can one use an OS without ever leaving a trace in system logs? Does User impose ultimate control over a running OS or why the ‘shutdown’ command sometimes does not work?