Google is designing a new operating system (also at Github) based on its own new kernel (Magenta), which may be intended to unify/replace Android and ChromeOS. It is also expected to run on a wide range of ARM and x64 devices, such as Chromecast, Raspberry Pi 3, smartphones, laptops, and desktops.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by darkfeline on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:34PM
I think they might be open sourcing it because it's dead. ChromeOS is getting the ability to run Android apps natively, after all.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:44PM
Any time I've heard about ChromeOS devices, it was about how the category was growing well amid the decline of the PC market.
The app/game selection on ChromeOS definitely sucks. I'm also not convinced that my feeble device will be able to run the more useful Android apps very well. But letting ChromeOS devices run Android apps is an easy way to make them much more useful since there are so many of them.
It will be interesting to see how the permissions system is handled.
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(Score: 2) by Gravis on Monday August 15 2016, @03:34AM
it's way too active to be dead. https://fuchsia-review.googlesource.com/#/q/project:magenta [googlesource.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 16 2016, @09:19AM
Could be zombie or misc undead.