Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
by nickysielicki on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @03:10AM
(#43409014)
Zircon is miles apart from linux. It’s like saying you’d run Portage on top of Windows. You and what army?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
by chasil on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @04:27AM
(#43409430)
Windows was built with a POSIX subsystem from the very beginning. WSL 1 uses something analogous.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_POSIX_subsystem
The Zircon kernel does not support signals, so basic C is not going to work well.
"It is heavily inspired by Unix kernels, but differs greatly. For example, it does not support Unix-like signals, but incorporates event-driven programming and the observer pattern."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia_(operating_system)#K...
Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them
by 6SixTy on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:26PM
(#43414871)
As long as there's Bash and Python support, Gentoo Prefix could as well. That's kind of the only things that are hard needed for Gentoo as Portage is written in Python and Ebuilds are Bash scripts. Bigger issue would be that the Fuchsia kernel likely isn't POSIX complete.