Re:Fuchsia is not Linux
by lobster_johnson on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @05:54PM
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Fuchsia is not a monolith in a design sense, though -- it's a microkernel, and the device interface is based on IPC, which means you can keep the kernel clean and simple, and put drivers elsewhere. For comparison, the majority of the Linux source tree is drivers and file systems. The kernel proper is pretty small. But because it's a monolith, it all has to live and evolve together.
I’m not speaking to the technical implementation
I’m talking to the commentary about a dated cultural artifact sucking, championing of new hotness, a new culture that will develop around it and eventually fade as technology changes and the peddlers of the latest and greatest will largely say the same “wtf @ this mess”
But downvote reality of human progress that has occurred over and over
The opinionated nature of humans is bizarre, given that we keep, in a social way, repeating our dead relatives
We can fix the future from a past that won’t live to see it
It’s all nonsense for the majority of humans, but this little microcosm called HN has its finger in the pulse of what we’ll need in 2040!
Fuschia will become another monolith where the assumptions no longer matter given tech of 2035 or whatever, and something new will happen
IMO the better model would be a simple hardware BIOS type thing with a standardized build system embedded that enables completely custom environment builds from whatever source repo people want
These big monoliths seemed more valuable in a pre-internet is everywhere world, so they include the kitchen sink too