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A startup building a "data centre operating system" that owes its existence to a former PHD student has landed $36m in funding from some high-tech high rollers. Mesosphere landed the cash in a round led by Khosla Ventures with backing from others including Andreessen Horowitz. This is second shot from Andreessen Horowitz for …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    You're not really building an OS if you're using Linux or Unix style underpinnings. Even OSX is Unix style.

    Creating something new hasn't happened for ages. BeOS was probably the last big attempt at doing something new. It's a shame it didn't take off as it pissed all over Windows performance-wise.

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    1. cookieMonster Silver badge
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      Ah, BeOS

      What a great OS, still have my BeBox...

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  2. Tom 7

    Tannenbaum

    about 30 years ago?

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  3. JMiles

    OSv...

    OSv by cloudius systems Is another newcomer trying to be a cloud OS. Takes a different approach to mesosphere. Is Open Source. Worth checking out.

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  4. tony2heads
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    new OS

    Will it be ready before of after Hurd 1.0 ?

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  5. Tom 64

    Smells like marketing fluff

    And if I'm not much mistaken, Java is a dependency. No thanks, I'll not get on this tank.

    I'm far more excited by what the likes of CoreOS are doing.

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