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Google's Fuschia OS project is intriguing. It's open source, but I haven't been able to find any whitepapers or conference talks about its design or Google's pl
by gingerbread-man 10y ago
Google's Fuschia OS project is intriguing. It's open source, but I haven't been able to find any whitepapers or conference talks about its design or Google's plans for it. The speculation is that they wanted an ultra-lightweight OS for future low-latency augmented-reality applications.
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271354)
- magentaboy 10y agoFor decades, I have challenged people with a dollar bet tha they cannot correctly spell "fuchsia" given five tries. Everybody thinks they can spell it, but I have never lost the dollar. Sometimes I pull out the same bet six months later and still win it.
- softawre 10y agoRelevant username?
- rspeer 10y agoIndeed, I seem to recall from the XKCD color survey that the correct spelling of "fuchsia" was not in the top five. Which makes it a messy name for a project. Though maybe Google can change the spelling by brand-name fiat, just like they did with "googol".
- zrth 10y agoDon't bet against German speaking persons. "Fuchs" mean "fox" in German so fuchsia basically means/sounds like fox-ia in German, guessing they will be able to spell it correctly as it is to easy to miss spell.
- nialv7 10y agoI have a hard time understanding why augmented-reality applications need a different type of OS. I get the low-latency part. But there're already OSs designed for low-latency.