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Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

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Re: Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

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Post by innagadadavida »

Jesus_Jones wrote: post #2

There's no point to these early Fuschia review attempts. I don't see how it demonstrates anything. It's like looking at the famous first email from Linus Torvald and figuring out what the os would be in the end. So it boots, it has windows, but not apps, and prints some things to the screen. It tells us nothing about real intentions, future capabilities, etc.

I'm hoping it will be noticed by Linus and other Linux developers and help them address some of the shortcomings that Fuchsia aims to fix. It seems like this is how Google is exerting pressure on Linux to get what it wants...

Re: Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

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Post by Unkechaug »

What is this supposed to become, exactly? Google hasn't said much about it and speculators are making big claims like how this will replace ChromeOS and Android. I don't see that happening any time soon considering how deeply entrenched both OSes are, but Google's dedication mixed with the lack of comments makes me think again.

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Post by goalieca »

Jesus_Jones wrote: post #2

There's no point to these early Fuschia review attempts. I don't see how it demonstrates anything. It's like looking at the famous first email from Linus Torvald and figuring out what the os would be in the end. So it boots, it has windows, but not apps, and prints some things to the screen. It tells us nothing about real intentions, future capabilities, etc.

So if the title was "Google Fuchsia early preview" then that would be fine.

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Post by eddieh »

Jesus_Jones wrote: post #2

There's no point to these early Fuschia review attempts. I don't see how it demonstrates anything. It's like looking at the famous first email from Linus Torvald and figuring out what the os would be in the end. So it boots, it has windows, but not apps, and prints some things to the screen. It tells us nothing about real intentions, future capabilities, etc.

That seems rather pedantic. At this point I'm curious enough to watch these "reviews", but I don't care enough to try it myself. I happy reviewers are showing off the work, whatever they call it, review, sneak peak, preview.

Re: Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

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Post by eddieh »

mtgx wrote: post #14

Short review: Another OS written in C/C++ that will have a million and one bugs over the next 3 decades.

As someone who has dabbled in OS development over the years, you'd be a fool to use anything other than C (I suppose you could use a restricted subset of C++ if you really don't want to write anything but a toy OS) or assembly if you have something to prove.

Re: Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

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Post by sctb »

gjm11 wrote: post #8

This "review" is the video portion of this Ars Technica article: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-o... which of course does not purport to be a review of Fuchsia.

Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhX6cANaJ6o.
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