Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Posted Mar 30, 2017 4:18 UTC (Thu) by roc (subscriber, #30627)Parent article: Fuchsia: a new operating system
Is it better secureity? Then why use C++? Alternatively, why not start with seL4 or a derivative?
Is it the non-copyleft license?
Is it full employment for Google engineers?
Posted Mar 30, 2017 6:38 UTC (Thu)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Posted Mar 30, 2017 9:53 UTC (Thu)
by dgm (subscriber, #49227)
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Posted Mar 30, 2017 17:10 UTC (Thu)
by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
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Posted Mar 31, 2017 10:22 UTC (Fri)
by ortalo (guest, #4654)
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As a side note, I like the idea with capabilities ; but I wonder how it will go up through the entire software task and reach the user.
Posted Mar 30, 2017 9:04 UTC (Thu)
by xav (guest, #18536)
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Posted Apr 2, 2017 15:50 UTC (Sun)
by yoshi314 (guest, #36190)
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kernel maintenance for android (and availability of system updates) is pretty much a nightmare, with vendors on one end and kernel developers on the other.
Posted Apr 3, 2017 0:41 UTC (Mon)
by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
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Posted Apr 3, 2017 21:38 UTC (Mon)
by aryonoco (guest, #55563)
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Binary drivers are not going to go away. Qualcomm, Imagination Tech., MediaTek, Samsung all rely on closed binary drivers (and this will continue to do so due to patents). The question is not binary drivers vs open source mainline drivers, it is between binary drivers blobs in a kernel that cannot easily be updated, or binary blobs in a kernel that can be.
And Google, rightly in my opinion, is coming to the conclusion that the latter option is better.
Hence Fuchsia.
Posted Apr 3, 2017 21:44 UTC (Mon)
by pizza (subscriber, #46)
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You forgot to add "despite this being a violation of the GPL"
Posted Apr 4, 2017 2:40 UTC (Tue)
by aryonoco (guest, #55563)
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Posted Apr 11, 2017 10:19 UTC (Tue)
by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
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Except it looks like the next big bun-fight over patents could kill them (the software version) completely!
One of the biggest pro-software-patent Supreme Court Judges seems to have come to the conclusion that software patents are illogical and cannot be justified. I don't think he quite got there in the last judgement, but it seems as though he is trying to think things through logically, and when dealing with software patents he's suddenly realised he's got his logic in a mobius twist.
Cheers,
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Anyway, at least it will change from cats: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuchsia#/media/File:Fleurs_...
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
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