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Google's New Non-Linux OS: Fuchsia

posted by martyb on Sunday August 14 2016, @09:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the One-OS-to-Rule-Them-All? dept.

takyon writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:44PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Sunday August 14 2016, @10:44PM (#387997) Journal

    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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