Mis · towards a new operating system
In silico is an expression used to mean "performed on computer or via computer simulation." The phrase is coined from the Latin phrases in vivo and in vitro that are commonly used in biology. Mis stands for Machine in silico, which literally means a "virtual computer".
Mis is a Linux-based mobile and multiplatform operating system. It can be launched directly from a flash drive, allowing you to use any computer as your own. It suggests new paradigms, an extremely light mobility solution thanks to better use of available hardware resources.
More than 271 Millions PCs have been shipped all over the world in 2007 and there's probably more than one billiard working PCs on Earth (source Gartner Inc.). In this context, it seems reasonable to think that designing hardware is no longer the real issue about computers. New challenges are about cognition and knowledge. How can we make all these machines more efficient and more convenient to use ? How this unequally-divided mass of computers can help people creating and sharing intelligence ?
Mis is a mobile and Linux-based Operating System that can be launched on any platform. It has a specific "project-oriented" user interface, delivering contemporary design and high-quality user experience.
Mis is a mobile and Linux-based Operating System that can be launched on any platform. It has a specific "project-oriented" user interface, delivering contemporary design and high-quality user experience.
A "project-oriented" user interface.
The idea of project is the leading part of the Mis User Interface, according
to which we can manage, use and create all our data. Making a project organisation the crucial point
of Mis operating system aims at offering a better coordination between users, applications and files within the scope of fluidness and efficacity.
A project is one or more people, using specific tools and creating some productions with a view to pre-defined objectives.
The Mis projects' organisation system filters the content of your computer (contacts, application and files) according to what you plan to do. You keep on hand only what you need for your project, no more.
With Mis you always have an easy access to your projects, the projects' selector help you to naviguate and quickly jump from one project to one another. Located on the top-left corner of the screen it allows a permanent one-click access to all of your projects'.
Every project has its own desktop, and moreover, it's a multi-users real dedicated workspace, where you will find only specific content of the project.
All your data is organised according to dynamic and contextual links - thus allowing a fluider user experience and a more "supple" file management. Your digital world is no longer restrained in "rigid folders", but dynamicaly reorganizes itself according to what you're actually doing and where you are clicking.
Mis puts forward a new way of thinking computers in a resolutely open, mobile and transverse vision. The user interface's design allows to get the best of Linux and free softwares potential, delivering refined and high quality user experience. Mis is particularly well-adapted to scarce-hardware situations (school, social centers, developing countries...) but remains, at the same time, a smart alternative mobility solution in ever-present-computer contexts.
→ special thanks to jean-louis frechin and olivier paradeise
→ photos of the mis usb key by veronique huyghe, ensci, 2007.
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