Google Is Starting To Reveal the Secrets of Its Experimental Fuchsia OS

'At Google's I/O developer conference this past week, Android and
Chrome chief Hiroshi Lockheimer offered some rare insight into
Fuchsia, albeit at a very high level, in front of public audiences.
The Verge reports:

What we do know about Fuchsia is that it's an open source project,
similar to AOSP, but could run all manner of devices, from smart home
gadgets to laptops to phones. It's also known to be built on an
all-new, Google-built kernel called "zircon," formerly known as
"magenta," and not the Linux kernel that forms the foundation of
Android and Chrome OS.

"We're looking at what a new take on an operating system could be
like. And so I know out there people are getting pretty excited
saying, 'Oh this is the new Android,' or, 'This is the new Chrome
OS,'" Lockheimer said. "Fuchsia is really not about that. Fuchsia is
about just pushing the state of the art in terms of operating systems
and things that we learn from Fuchsia we can incorporate into other
products." He says the point of the experimental OS is to also
experiment with different form factors, a hint toward the possibility
that Fuchsia is designed to run on smart home devices, wearables, or
possibly even augmented or virtual reality devices. "You know Android
works really well on phones and and you know in the context of Chrome
OS as a runtime for apps there. But Fuchsia may be optimized for
certain other form factors as well. So we're experimenting."

Lockheimer provided some additional details at a separate Android
fireside chat held at Google I/O today. "It's not just phones and PCs.
In the world of [the Internet of Things], there are increasing number
of devices that require operating systems and new runtimes and so on.
I think there's a lot of room for multiple operating systems with
different strengths and specializations. Fuchsia is one of those
things and so, stay tuned," he told the audience.'

-- source: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/19/05/10/0021243

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
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University of Waikato, NZ
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