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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: 2) by butthurt on Monday August 15 2016, @02:11AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Monday August 15 2016, @02:11AM (#388053) Journal

    Someone let Leonard Pottering write an OS to go with systemd.

    I'm unsure whether you mean that literally, or if it's a joke, sarcasm, or a metaphor. Looking at https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/ [googlesource.com] I don't see systemd listed as a component of Fuchsia. Nor did I see a mention of Lennaert Pottering's name in the OS News or PC World articles. As far as I know, he doesn't work for Google but for Red Hat.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @03:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @03:51AM (#388085)

    It's written in C.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by RamiK on Monday August 15 2016, @07:31AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Monday August 15 2016, @07:31AM (#388123)

    I'm unsure whether you mean that literally

    Yes it was sarcasm... But that you had to check proves my point: It smells object oriented in a very bad way.

    It's written in C.

    https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/kernel/lib/magenta/magenta.cpp [github.com]
    https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/kernel/lib/magenta/thread_dispatcher.cpp [github.com]

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