Re:How sandboxing works in Fuchsia
by remir on Sunday June 18, 2017 @08:24PM
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Take a look at the repo. Fuchsia is an OS for mobile devices. The UI is clearly made for phones, they use the Flutter framework, which was made specifically for mobile app development and can target iOS and Android too.
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Re:How sandboxing works in Fuchsia
by bitmapbrother on Sunday June 18, 2017 @10:32PM
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>Take a look at the repo. Fuchsia is an OS for mobile devices. The UI is clearly made for phones
No it's not. Fuchsia is device agnostic. It's for mobile devices, personal computers, IOT devices, etc. Just because it uses Flutter does not restrict it to mobile devices.
Perhaps. The current set of boot instructions are for a NUC desktop, a laptop, and 2 ARM dev boards though. https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/magenta/+/master/docs/targe...
Re:How sandboxing works in Fuchsia
by dikaiosune on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:04PM
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The hardware in that Acer laptop looks surprisingly similar to what a current flagship phone has in terms of resources if not exact architecture.
I guess generically in that it has a touchscreen, limited hdd size, etc. It's an i5 Intel x64 CPU though.
Re:How sandboxing works in Fuchsia
by dikaiosune on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:07PM
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I believe my phone runs a 64bit ARM with eight 2.3ghz cores and has the same amount of ram as the base Acer model?
The i5 has 2 cores, different memory bus setup, cache setup, etc. If you're saying it has the same rough level of horsepower, that makes sense. Not at all the same architecture though.
Re:How sandboxing works in Fuchsia
by dikaiosune on Monday June 19, 2017 @12:55AM
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> similar to what a current flagship phone has in terms of resources if not exact architecture.
:)