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I still wonder what the plans for Fuchsia are. Is Google really thinking about just throwing out the millions of man-years which have been sunk into Linux?
by Teknoman117 8y ago
I still wonder what the plans for Fuchsia are. Is Google really thinking about just throwing out the millions of man-years which have been sunk into Linux?
- lallysingh 8y agoThe kernel is mostly drivers. If they only support a bit of hardware, they'd be tossing a lot of stuff they don't need.
- pjmlp 8y agoThey don't need to please everyone, just make their use case work. Also porting the drivers to Fuschia should be relatively easy, thanks the Treble changes that kind of made their Android Linux kernel into a kind of hybrid-microkernel. Android is already being ported to run on top of Fuchsia. Google isn't the only one, the IoT space is getting crowed with BSD/MIT/Apache POSIX compatible OSes, including Zephyr from Linux Foundation, which is completly unrelated to Linux. 28 years ago no would would believe that Linux distributions would eventually kill commercial UNIX.
- Teknoman117 8y ago> 28 years ago no would would believe that Linux distributions would eventually kill commercial UNIX. That's certainly a fair point. I was thinking more along the lines of that, at least in the scenario of consumer usage of Linux, some really interesting features are finally gaining traction from various companies (3D accelerators for instance). Was just fearing that ditching existing work for the new shiny thing would send us back to square one.
- pjmlp 8y ago3D acceleration works just fine in Android.