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

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: 3, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday June 22 2018, @03:24PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 22 2018, @03:24PM (#696783) Journal

    I'm a Java developer. Abstractions upon abstractions? You ain't got nothin' on me!

    Let me introduce you to the FactoryFactoryFactory pattern.

    You need to obtain an instance of, say, an XmlSomething. But an XmlSomething is rather complex to initially configure and get it just right.

    So we introduce the XmlSomethingFactory class. You instantiate an XmlSomethingFactory, configure it, and now it can produce suitable XmlSomething instances for you. Just ask the factory for a new instance as often as you want. The factory may actually construct different underlying instance classes which all extend XmlSomething, but you won't know the difference. These different implementation classes can be pessimized for how you have configured the XmlSomethingFactory in order to ensure sub-optimal performance.

    Now, configuring the XmlSomethingFactory is rather complex. So we introduce a new XmlSomethingFactoryFactory. You instantiate an XmlSomethingFactoryFactory, configure it, and it can produce for you as many differently configured XmlSomethingFactories as you want, which can be used as in the previous paragraph to create suitably confused XmlSomething instances.

    Now, configuring an XmlSomethingFactoryFactory is rather complex, . . . . I think you can see where I'm going with this.

    This example brought to you by the same people who have created many other similarly abstract examples of abstract abstractions to abstract away the underlying dirty reality bits.

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