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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
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Google to Add Swift Language Support to Fuchsia OS
ChromeOS Gains the Ability to Run Linux Applications

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:11PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 22 2018, @05:11PM (#696839)

    How difficult would it be for OS X to become capable of running Linux apps?

    Darwin, the core of OS X, is a BSD derivative.

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Saturday June 23 2018, @03:21AM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 23 2018, @03:21AM (#697107) Journal

    Let me rephrase. If the Windows kernel can be made to run Linux apps (aka Windows Subsystem for Linux from Microsoft), then how difficult would it be for a BSD kernel to be made able to run Linux apps?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @04:12PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @04:12PM (#697603)

      And before that iBCS, SunOS, Xenix, and a bunch of other binary emulation.

      The problem being that since it isn't a formal specification, implementation differences in the OS itself sometimes has unexpected effects on the emulators capabilities, as well as differences in permission models between oses. In FreeBSD's case, I believe they had some issues supporting 64 bit linux for a while. But I was running the Neverwinter Nights dedicated server on FreeBSD 4.x back in the early 2000s, so it is more than possible: it is functional. The greatest limitation has been driver support so desktop applications can be run or run with full functionality.