More likely this exists simply because Google could afford it. If something comes out of it, fine; if not no problem. When money is no object why not let some engineers play with experimental tech.
Re:Fuchsia: a new operating system
by jasonvorhe on Friday March 31, 2017 @02:44PM
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Your guess is as good as mine, but there are some clues:
https://techspecs.blog/blog/2017/2/14/googles-not-so-secret-...
Re:Fuchsia: a new operating system
by techenthusiast on Friday March 31, 2017 @03:15PM
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Thanks, but would sooner recommend my third article: https://techspecs.blog/blog/2017/3/15/fuchsias-hypervisor.
The link in the bottom of your first article was very helpful, and seems to confirm ChromeOS and Android would be the likely targets.
https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+show/master/docs/m...
Re:Fuchsia: a new operating system
by techenthusiast on Saturday April 01, 2017 @01:27PM
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Thanks. Yeah, they really could not be more transparent about that. Most of the bring-up is on mobile + PC silicon as well.
There's no need to kill Chrome OS for the education, mind.
Looked at it again, and it could be an old comment about magenta, and maybe not applicable to fuchsia?
Re:Fuchsia: a new operating system
by techenthusiast on Monday April 03, 2017 @08:54PM
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Well, the OS is most strictly the kernel, right? It's honestly all together. It's an SMP system that you can already run on normal ARM and x86 devices.
The team has stated that everything in the kernel is true, and that there's quite a lot there to infer from. What they can't say publicly is the how and why, e.g. how would they hypothetically implement backwards compatibility with Android apps?
As far as I know, Google hasn't telegraphed the purpose of it. I can't tell if it's targeted at all, none, or some of the above.