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Google's Fuchsia OS Adds Emulator for Debian Linux Applications

posted by mrpg on Friday June 22 2018, @05:32AM   Printer-friendly
from the with-systemd? dept.

takyon writes:

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.

Previously: Google's New Non-Linux OS: Fuchsia
Google's Not-So-Secret New OS
Google Fuchsia UI Previewed
Google to Add Swift Language Support to Fuchsia OS
ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @11:00AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @11:00AM (#696672)

    I am constantly amazed at how little temporal perspective the young and ignorant libertariantard types these days have.

    I am constantly amazed at how arrogant you are.

    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?

    Yes we know the stories of Gary Kildall and Dave Cutler.

    And all that remained, at the end, was Unix, Linux, BSD, the code, the one true code. Old age? You have no idea.

    Exactly because it wasn't a designed-by-committee shit show. LIVE FREE OR DIE [unix.org]

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday June 22 2018, @03:14PM (4 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 22 2018, @03:14PM (#696778) Journal

    Being arrogant and being correct are not mutually exclusive.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:13PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:13PM (#696842)

      True, but if you are the former about the later then you are a douche.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @08:52PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @08:52PM (#696956)

      Being arrogant and being correct are not mutually exclusive.

      Not only did our ancient Greek friend somehow manage to reply to the wrong comment but...

      I am constantly amazed at how little temporal perspective the young and ignorant libertariantard types these days have.

      And my response was a link..

      One day Armando was driving and he saw a Florida "Sunshine State" plate on the front of a car in a parking lot and was inspired to make a fake license plate as a hand-out. At first Armando considered making a "Sunshine State" license, then thought about New Mexico's "Land of Enchantment", but eventually settled on the New Hampshire License plate motif. The fact that "Live Free or Die" was New Hampshire's state motto and appeared on every license plate made the choice even more fitting, as Armando felt the phrase met UNIX's minimalistic and libertarian orientation.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @12:37AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 23 2018, @12:37AM (#697060)

        "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!