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So, I am working on a project, and I have a question:
If the Foundation were to create and use their own Operating System, what would it be called, and which present-day system would it resemble?
I need some ideas. If someone could generate some names and concepts concerning this, let me know!
Edit: Also, if the "SCPF-OS" or whatever has been mentioned in any articles, please don't hesitate to post me a link.
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They'd probably use Windows (like, an OLD version of Windows. At most recent, probably Windows 7 if we're talking present day). Maybe they would make an OS based on Linux, but I'm betting most of their stuff is Windows-based (and the really old stuff running on Windows XP or something).
IF they were to create and use their own OS.
I am trying to get some creative ideas for the IF. I am working on a project that requires something original and more creative than "Windows" or "Linux".
But thanks. Nice try.
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To be honest I imagine it to be a two part OS, or one OS with a command prompt program attached, and you have to manually connect to certain things through the command prompt through passcode, but otherwise the background desktop is much like an organization owned computer: windows, wallpaper defaulted, many options disabled, like access to the c:// drive, and no internet.
I also imagine an Androidlike OS for phones or touchscreen devices (maybe embedded in control panels) with a homescreen but a custom appstore for different control panels, like the connection to doors or such.
There is probably internal servers in every site (excluding the tech site, site-15, no servers allowed) and these provide the database for all the other computers.
They probably run alot of custom applications that come down to copies of Word, Calculator, ect, things that help index. The labs will have applications that connect to lab equipment, certain places may edit A/V for use with documents, there may be scripts for things like memetic kill hazards, password locked videos, ect.
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New Technical Issues calls the Foundation operating system SCP-NET.
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Thank you, Roget. I will definitely look into that.
And, Zyn, I was not trying to be sarcastic.
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Sarcastic would be better than condescending, which is what it actually reads like.
Well, people like to play around with starting things off with f, like Kate Mctiriss's FTML for Foundation Text Markup Language. I threw in .fcdoc recently for a collaborative document format. (Edit: I prefer to believe that the Foundation has equivalents for just about every conventional file type that can only be opened by Foundation apps in the Foundation OS.)
The command line seems to be the standard way of accessing documents from the server (pick just about any SCP for example, but SCP-2317 has a lot of it.)
There are other considerations in play. Do you believe the Foundation had computers and electronic communications in advance of society from the get-go? Or, did they start at the same pace but gain speed after that? Or, are they 100% mundane? Or, are they not only mundane, but shackled to relatively outdated systems due to legacy software, security concerns, and sheer bloody bureaucratic inertia? (I prefer the first option disguised as the last, myself.)
I don't know very much about operating systems, but I imagine a Foundation OS would be very segmented. Just about every application is run in its own instance or silo in the OS, with 50 RAISA algorithms just waiting to zap that one the second something infohazardous happens. Not practical, maybe, but we're talking about an organization who prefers people to access online content like it's 1985 because it's easier to maintain complete info control, so…
I think it would be incredibly fragmented, because the various containment protocols have been created hodgepodge around the specific SCPs.
So some SCP containment systems still work with old FORTRAN programs in carefully maintained IBM 704s, while other, newer SCPs use last year PCs running SELinux…
And I'm sure other sites use WinXP, old MacOS and even telex and fax machines.
My headcanon has the Foundation using a a variety of OSes - like most large and long-lived organizations, computing needs would be varied and call for different OSes in different problem domains. So there is no one true SCP OS. Also, I find it highly unlikely that the Foundation would dedicate the man-hours necessary to create and maintain their own OSes for general use. I would expect them to roll their custom distro of Linux for field, server and lab use (or maybe an mil-spec RTOS like VxWorks where required) and use Windows or OSX where appropriate in office environments. They would have some legacy and special purpose OSes in use as well, likely based on an existing OS, e.g. MVS, VMS or VAX for the big iron, maybe even a variant of Multics (its 'protection ring' security model which intrinsically restricts access based on user identity would have been an excellent candidate for an early 'SCP OS'). The needs of an organization like the Foundation would surely result in a number of orphan and unicorn computing systems needing to be maintained for an indefinite period. As appealing as it would be for RAISA to consolidate on a single 'SCP OS', there's no one OS that could run (or would be appropriate for the task) on multiple generations of hardware, vastly ranging in size, complexity, architecture, and purpose.
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If you want a good *nix distribution name for a Foundation-specific OS - use GNUclid. Someone in 19 came up with it.
That being said, it's inevitably going to be a large variety, both for in-universe and out-of-universe reasons. In universe, because different tasks require different priorities - you might be running Linux servers, but the workstations will run Windows because that's what users are familiar with.
They'd probably use their own Linux distro. Windows is too vulnerable, MacOS is expensive, and Linux is free and open source. They'd probably either use RedHat or their own distro, since open source software isn't great for security.
I personally think that they use their own anomalously-enhanced OS, maybe the kind that can work faster than it should be or maybe an OS that runs on quantum computing. Or they can always use upgraded/modified version of the usual stuffs, making it safer or something like that.
In SCP-2111 I used a unix based OS with a secure shell called [4.63%].
