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Google's New Non-Linux OS: Fuchsia

posted by martyb on Sunday August 14 2016, @09:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the One-OS-to-Rule-Them-All? dept.

takyon writes:

Google is designing a new operating system (also at Github) based on its own new kernel (Magenta), which may be intended to unify/replace Android and ChromeOS. It is also expected to run on a wide range of ARM and x64 devices, such as Chromecast, Raspberry Pi 3, smartphones, laptops, and desktops.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @10:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 15 2016, @10:14PM (#388437)

    Android does indeed show ads and phones home. Or maybe you were referring to the completely unusable anywhere but virtual machines OSS version of Android which has nearly zero support for any device because all important drivers are closed source.
    Regarding Fuchsia, being Open Source is not enough to make the product trustworthy; the OS must also not rely on closed source modules (device drivers, binary blobs etc) to work. Just look at how disgraceful Android has become: they keep telling it's open but all the important parts are closed, so that the number of phones/tablets where you can install a native Linux distro in 2016 is essentially zero.