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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: 2) by jmorris on Friday June 22 2018, @07:43PM

    by jmorris (4844) on Friday June 22 2018, @07:43PM (#696911)

    Well in this case there is no Linux, only Debian's packaging of GNU + X + GNOME/KDE/Firefox/LibreOffice/etc.

    So this new thing has no apps and is solving that by becoming an inferior, less portable substrate for the UNIX/GNU toolchain. Kinda like Be. Sad. At least Be was actually better than Linux at the time for multimedia applications. What is this thing's "bullet point" for why it should be used vs just installing Debian GNU atop Linux? Google's hatred of the GPL? Just use *BSD under the same basic userland in that case.

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