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What is the plan for Fuchsia? A kernel for a mobile operating system? Or a general purpose kernel? Will Google migrate all their server software to Fuchsia? I

• rvz 6y ago
  > What is the plan for Fuchsia? A kernel for a mobile operating system? Or a general purpose kernel? Both. An entire OS that replaces ChromeOS and Android. Zircon as the kernel instead of Linux and Fuchsia as the whole OS. > Will Google migrate all their server software to Fuchsia? I am not too convinced that's their idea, isn't it? If they can get Zircon optimised on their own Google silicon then it maybe possible. But who knows.
  • 29athrowaway 6y ago
    It is my understanding that most of Google's services run on a Linux fork, which they keep rebasing and ocassionally some of their changes get mainlined. Will Google move everything to Fuchsia/Zircon? Very unlikely. I think Linux will continue to be the de-facto OS for servers. That's what people know how to use and work with. FreeBSD is cool too, but much less popular. If Linux goes away, we can use FreeBSD or Hurd. But it won't go away.