Google's new kernel Fuchsia is getting a face

Google's new kernel Fuchsia is getting a face

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/05/googles-fuchsia-smartphone-os-dumps-linux-has-a-wild-new-ui/?comments=1

I'm a Linux fag, but I can understand why they switch to a non-GPL microkernel. Linux is terrible for consumer devices.

>alpha
Damn should I hold off buying a chromebook?

no, it will take years until Fuchsia will be available on one of those devices, my guess it's ready in 2019

>Mixed: C, C++, Dart, Go, Rust, Python

Tiles are the future man

This looks incredibly spartan, but I guess they have to start somewhere.

>Android will be deprecated by 2024
How will XDA ever recover? Hang in there Pajeets!

Android won't go anywhere, they'll just replace the kernel

And the UI and much of the corelibs by the looks of it.

Wouldn't be surprised if they replace Java with something good too, Especially with all the bullshit Oracle tried to pull.

The important part is that the kernel is not GPL. There will be no more roms.

>But Rhajeet, these tiles kinda look like they're based on Windows
>I know, my cousin Pajeet works over there and gave me the idea. But look, if we round the corners a bit...
>Rhajeet you're a genius!

It's going to run like shit on anything but high end devices, isn't it?

They just have to make an abstraction layer probably. Because no one but Red Hat can contain all the freetard autism for long.

Loonix is a good starting point but then you move unto something better.

I've looked through the Repository and seeing Rust, Go, C, C++, Dart, Python and some Shell scripts.

Dart might replace Java for apps, if I look at the naming and tools written.
>BoringSSL, Google's custom SSL fork of OpenSSL, specifically for Google's needs.
>Google might drop Java like a brick in your lifetime

>Google's the only ones smart enough to make a new OS entirely for modern 3-in-1 systems instead of stretching legacy Windows across platforms with new paint or pretending macOS and iOS wouldn't benefit from converging

Granted this probably comes from Android being a legacy piece of shit that doesn't converge well but shrug

Do you think it will be open source?

Android using linux had no major low-level issues, though I can see that they hate having to be forced to obey the GPL with all their modules.

They only needed open source Linux to get the tinkerer and geek crowd with Android, and more and more features have been through Google apps instead of AOSP

They can go ahead and make the closed source iOS/Wangblows they always wanted now don't hold your breath

>Windows based OS on mobile
The real multitasking is coming to mobile?

It's open source except for the Google related stuff.

It's like a rice from those threads

Yes, the openness of android drives alot of people (read - xda pajeets) to the OS. Surely google understands that.

They picked coders from anywhere, and need thousands of them to get something like this done properly with no time to teach everyone the same langs

>open source
Means nothing when you cant change anything and the system is always locked under DMCA laws. Android started off as a GNU thing, then slowly transitioned to remove all the GNU components. The reason is they want to control everything in the system. This means building blackboxes and such that would disallow editing of the OS.

But you can pick that code and make your own flavor.

How many centuries will this take to reach 1.0, on a scale of Tyzen to Hurd?

Considering it already runs cross-platform apps, Google's developed runtimes for Chrome OS for Android compatibility, and Google's in a strong position to strongarm adoption in phones and Chrome laptops once launched it's going pretty quick

The transition is going to happen before you blink i once it's released

Ok, so it's in the same position Linux was in 20 years ago? Good job no important development happened in the mean time.

Good luck doing that on the phone you bought, legally.

What the hell do you mean by that?

Having 'things working' isn't an impressive milestone for an OS kernel, it's the minimum viable product. All the boring, behind the scenes work is what has been the bulk of Linux, BSD and NT development for the majority of their lifetimes.

wat

Are you one of those cucks that actually obeys those unenforceable laws?