FOSSURA
FOSSURA is a long-running Operating System originally created by the Deepcore Foundation before ECHOES obtained the source code for it. It's history is long and sordid, involving a fair amount of illegal activities on the Deepcore Foundation's part and the end of the world with The Withering making it into something much better than what it was before.
History
DYNAMO
The original version of FOSSURA, codenamed DYNAMO, began development in 2005 and was implemented into the Deepcore Foundation by early 2007. Based upon Unix, FOSSURA was designed for handling quick and efficent workloads in the Deepcore Foundation, operating on a multi-system basis that allowed for near-instant connectivity between any workstation on their network. Initially, it was used to manage the Deepcore Foundation's mining operations, however as time went on, FOSSURA DYNAMO would become more and more ingrained within the Deepcore Foundation's tech systems.
Around the end of 2007, the Deepcore Foundation began licensing DYNAMO out to other industries, where it would receive positive reception from those that used it. A lot of praise went into how fast it ran programs, combined with how sleek and intuative it's design was.
The reception would inspire the Deepcore Foundation with the next version of FOSSURA that would be intended for public release: MAGNETO.
MAGNETO
The next version of FOSSURA, MAGNETO, was released in 2008. Taking the world by storm, it was quickly adopted by many households. When designing MAGNETO, effort was placed into ensuring that programs from the Windows Operating System could work on MAGNETO. This proved to be one of the big selling points along with it's ease of access to the higher-level functions it offers, such as the aforementioned connectivity for multiple systems on one network.
This would pave the way to small communities of people joining together into small groups called Nodes. These Nodes were often connected to a central database that would exist within a local community, based upon a minaturized form of a Wardenclyffe Tower. Computers running FOSSURA MAGNETO could easily join up with these Nodes, allowing for the quick and easy sharing of information and data between one-another, as well as near instantaneious communication. For Machina, it was a perfect system for them to reside on, acting as a wonderful medium between the physical and digital world.
Needless to say, FOSSURA MAGNETO built up a lot of good will for people across the globe. Which would lead right into the disaster that was INTERCOOLER.
INTERCOOLER
Ideally, FOSSURA INTERCOOLER, released in 2013, would've been perfect. It was designed to be long-running, receiving continual updates over the years and ensuring that the users would not have to reinstall their operating system ever again. INTERCOOLER was developed not just for computers, but for phones as well, and as such it had a entire rewrite of it's UI to allow for an easier use on the phone. INTERCOOLER made use of brand-new interfacing technology that allowed for all sorts of devices to be connected to it, from Agiograph Displays to the then-new VR Technology.
By all accounts, it should have been a massive success. Alas, that was simply not to be.
Before the system even released, INTERCOOLER would be hit with controversy due to the subscription model that the Deepcore Foundation wished to impliment with it. The following table would be shown off at an annual Deepcore Foundation Keynote Meeting:
The prices being as ludicrious as they were was only the start, as people would gain issue with the many features being held back with each edition of INTERCOOLER. The fact that even with the Home Edition, you would have limited access to the Node system that made MAGNETO beloved was seen as particularly antithetical to what people loved about FOSSURA.
When FOSSURA INTERCOOLER finally released in 2013, it was an unmitigated disaster. There were more restrictions than what was ever mentioned, such as the fact that hard-drive space would be artificially limited and how the pricier editions would be automatically put on a fast track to getting experimental updates, which were prone to being rather buggy.
The system was notoriously prone to crashing, with many reporting problems such as the system shutting down entirely just from opening up a notepad program included with INTERCOOLER. The sales of smart-phones that used INTERCOOLER were low, which made the purpose of the redesigned UI ultimately pointless, doubly so when people complained about how it made accessing a lot of the apps and programs on their computers difficult. Finally, the interfacing technology was prone to errors, with one case having made the headlines at the time about their VR Headset becoming fried, prompting a lawsuit against the Deepcore Foundation.
Due to Deepcore pulling support for MAGNETO, along with a heavy ad-campaign to woo customers over to INTERCOOLER, people would gradually, begrudgingly, move over to the newer system. INTERCOOLER would get continual updates over the years, until The Withering, when the Deepcore Foundation would find themselves completely dismantled soon afterward.
Interlude
Soon after The Withering, the source code for FOSSURA was considered lost. The world would continue on with using either the various different operating systems that existed, or would keep on begrudgingly using INTERCOOLER. It wouldn't be until 2036 when the source code was found by the government of Amerigo during a routine inspection of abandoned Deepcore Foundation structures.
A few companies would take up the offer of continuing on the work on FOSSURA, a responsibility which would eventually come down to ECHOES. Once they were given the source code, they would quickly get to work on fixing up a lot of the security holes and problems that came up over the decade after Deepcore shut down. Alongside this, they opted to bring FOSSURA back to it's roots, reverting the UI to something resembling that of MAGNETO and undoing all the restrictions that were put in place.
It was during this time that more discoveries were made about INTERCOOLER. Within the code, it was discovered that the Deepcore Foundation had heavy surveillance systems in place to watch over their users, keeping watch on everything they searched up, typed, programmed, etc. There were also ways for the Deepcore Foundation to access the user's IP addresses, which would've allowed for them to easily find where people lived.
Needless to say, all of the surveillance systems were ripped out of INTERCOOLER, a process which took an extensive amount of time but was seen as worth it due to the risks it provided.
FLYWHEEL
Come 2039, FOSSURA would return with the benefits that INTERCOOLER had such as virtualization & an advanced Node system. Alongside that, it would more resemble that of MAGNETO wherin the UI was made for computers rather than phones, and it would allow for a much easier setup and connectivity to Nodes. This version would become known as FLYWHEEL, and it's still being used to this day, receiving regular updates that are heavily tested before release.
Utility
Common Fossura Desktop After Installation
Nowadays, FOSSURA is used for keeping people connected with each other and for people to keep themselves entertained. It allows for easy access to Nodes and, thanks to this, it allows for people to easily form communities in localized areas near each other. Depending on where the user lives, they will have easy access to the internet no matter what-- especially during emergencies.
FOSSURA is able to run just about any program made for it, as well as from other operating systems thanks to the usage of specialized compatibility layers. In the present day, a good 85% of programs made from 2000 to 2028 work flawlessly on FOSSURA. Anything made afterward is guarenteed to work.
FOSSURA has become popular for VR Communities and Machina in terms of having a digitalized enviroment for folks to socialize and connect to each other with, and as such, there have been many additions made over the years that were designed to further facilitate this, including games and digitalized recreations of formerly-extant areas from before The Withering.
FOSSURA FLYWHEEL is one of the four most commonly used Operating Systems in the world, alongside Windows Santorini, Arch Linux, and Debian.
The simple design of FOSSURA allows for the average layman to be able to use it with no issue. Alongside that, FOSSURA allows access to an easy-to-use package system and a complex coding suite that allows for anyone to easily get their hands on new programs, as well as create new ones.
MAGNETO
INTERCOOLER
FLYWHEEL
FOSSURA MAGNETO was in direct competition with the ill-fated Windows Longhorn. Longhorn would eventually be succeeded by Windows Blackcomb and Santorini, the latter of which is the current version of Windows to exist, albeit in an unsupported form.
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