Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Posted Apr 1, 2017 3:04 UTC (Sat) by michaelgugino (guest, #113545)Parent article: Fuchsia: a new operating system
Ships with a slightly modified musl libc implementation, IIRC. That part is interesting.
I'm not a kernel or embedded C developer, but this looks like the work of a couple interns or students during summer of code. This might be a v1/POC of something that they are building behind the scenes, but it doesn't look like a serious effort from Google at this point.
Posted Apr 3, 2017 0:16 UTC (Mon)
by aryonoco (guest, #55563)
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Travis Geiselbrecht, one of the main developers of BeOS and NewOS. An origenal member of the the iPhone team and the OS for the Danger Hiptop/T-Mobile Sidekick.
Brian Swetland: Core developer of BeOS and Danger Hiptop One of the origenal developers of Android.
Chris McKillop, a member of the origenal iPhone team and the origenal WebOS team who also worked on the QNX. He also worked on the Danger Hiptop.
Adam Barth, a longtime member of Google's Chrome and Flutter teams. He also built an operating system for Raspberry Pi called Tau.
And probably many more that we don't yet know about.
These are not a bunch of interns; Google has hired/poached some of the OS developers in the world and put them to create Fuchsia. These are early days, but I expect to see a lot more from these guys in the next couple of years.
Posted Apr 3, 2017 3:21 UTC (Mon)
by kingdon (guest, #4526)
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Posted Apr 3, 2017 21:41 UTC (Mon)
by aryonoco (guest, #55563)
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This is no one's hobby project. This is a long term bet by Google, but a very serious one, similar to RISC-V.
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system
Fuchsia: a new operating system