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Which in turn seems like a weak case because android presently performs very well
by easytiger 4y ago
Which in turn seems like a weak case because android presently performs very well
- wyldfire 4y agoFrom Google's point of view they likely believe that a microkernel could more easily be secured than a monolithic kernel. Also, it's probably great [from their point of view] to have control over their OS and its "community".
- Gigachad 4y agoAnd Google has spent so much time pushing rust for Linux.
- pjmlp 4y agoIn all these years Google has been replacing most of the GPL stuff on Android, dropping GCC for clang, moving driver infrastructure out of kernel space with Project Treble, and so on, the Linux kernel is the only thing left, that would be the business case.
- blibble 4y agoreplacing "the only thing left" is not a business case (especially where "the only thing left" is more than the sum of the rest put together) replacing the GNU userland reduces legal risk and increases operational flexibility significantly due to GPL3's tivoisation/patent clauses however the kernel isn't GPL3 (and never will be)
- pjmlp 4y agoIt is, given the non-copyleft nature from Fuchsia.