Google's Fuchsia OS will support Linux apps
Google's non-Linux-based Fuchsia OS has added an emulator for running Debian Linux apps. Like its upcoming Linux emulator for Chrome OS, Fuchsia's "Guest" app will offer tighter integration than typical emulators.
Google has added a Guest app to its emergent and currently open source Fuchsia OS to enable Linux apps to run within Fuchsia as a virtual machine (VM). The Guest app makes use of a library called Machina that permits closer integration with the OS than is available with typical emulators, according to a recent 9to5Google story.
Last month, Google announced a Project Crostini technology that will soon let Chromebook users more easily run mainstream Linux applications within a Chrome OS VM. This week, Acer's Chromebook Flip C101 joined the short list of Chromebooks that will offer Linux support later this year.
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Google's Not-So-Secret New OS
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ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday June 22 2018, @08:37AM (6 children)
So, it is just linux, but without the attribution? So much for don't be evil!
I am constantly amazed at how little temporal perspective the young and ignorant libertariantard types these days have. Do you know the Origins of Unix? Can you recall Multics? Have you ever heard of VMS, what was the second system stolen by Micro$oft of the land of Darkness (first being CP/M) to become the first non-DOS, or Windows NT? And all that remained, at the end, was Unix, Linux, BSD, the code, the one true code. Old age? You have no idea.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @11:00AM (5 children)
I am constantly amazed at how arrogant you are.
Yes we know the stories of Gary Kildall and Dave Cutler.
Exactly because it wasn't a designed-by-committee shit show. LIVE FREE OR DIE [unix.org]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 22 2018, @03:14PM (4 children)
Being arrogant and being correct are not mutually exclusive.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:13PM (1 child)
True, but if you are the former about the later then you are a douche.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday June 22 2018, @07:41PM
"Speak about arrogance when 2400 years old you be!" (Not-Yoda)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @08:52PM (1 child)
Not only did our ancient Greek friend somehow manage to reply to the wrong comment but...
And my response was a link..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @12:37AM
"Eat shit and die"? If you think Linux is calcified, you are probably not even Two Score and ten, yet. And you do not work well with others. Blatant intentional violation of CoC! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Systemd!