Fuchsia, a new operating system
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Re: Fuchsia, a new operating system
#2Hosted on https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/ is what looks like an early in development operating system.
Mirrored on Github where it's described as Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)
The kernel component 'Magenta' reveals it "targets modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of ram with arbitrary peripherals doing open ended computation." [1]
[1] https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/docs/m...
Re: Fuchsia, a new operating system
#3Its a new RTOS...
Basically that means more than just cell phones as you have embedded systems in vehicles that use RTOS, watches, medical devices, etc.
Its the operating system that runs the baseband cpu/chip other wise known as the BaseBandProcessor.
Re: Fuchsia, a new operating system
#4Its a new RTOS... Basically that means more than just cell phones as you have embedded systems in vehicles that use RTOS, watches, medical devices, etc. Its the operating system that runs the baseband cpu/chip other wise known as the BaseBandProcessor.
Is it? I'm not so sure. Certainly the presence of LittleKernel, a lightweight real-time kernel suggests it's an RTOS but that kernel is wrapped by something called 'Magenta' which says "Magenta targets modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of ram with arbitrary peripherals doing open ended computation." [1]
[1] https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/docs/m...
Re: Fuchsia, a new operating system
#5Some useful bits from IRC:
[16:21] Why's it public (mirrored to GitHub even) but not announced or even documented what it's for?
[16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: the decision was made to build it open source, so might as well start there from the beginning
[16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: things will eventually be public, documented and announced, just not yet
[16:23] currently booting reasonably well on broadwell and skylake NUCs and the Acer Switch Alpha 12, though driver support is still a work in progress
[16:24] yeah and soon we'll have raspberry pi 3 support which should be interesting to some folk
Sidebar comment: I wonder how much more activity this thread would be getting if the subject line had "by Google" in it. LOL
Re: Fuchsia, a new operating system
#6Apache2 and MIT. Sounds interesting
Re: Fuchsia, a new operating system
#7Some useful bits from IRC: [16:21] Why's it public (mirrored to GitHub even) but not announced or even documented what it's for? [16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: the decision was made to build it open source, so might as well start there from the beginning [16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: things will eventually be public, documented and announced, just not yet [16:23] currently booting reasonably well on broadwell and skylake NUCs and…
Cannot wait for rpi3 support!
Re: Fuchsia, a new operating system
#8Some useful bits from IRC: [16:21] Why's it public (mirrored to GitHub even) but not announced or even documented what it's for? [16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: the decision was made to build it open source, so might as well start there from the beginning [16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: things will eventually be public, documented and announced, just not yet [16:23] currently booting reasonably well on broadwell and skylake NUCs and…
Hmm, Travis Geiselbrecht of NewOS, Danger and BeOS fame and Brian Swetland of BeOS fame as well? Interesting.
Re: Fuchsia, a new operating system
#9Some useful bits from IRC: [16:21] Why's it public (mirrored to GitHub even) but not announced or even documented what it's for? [16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: the decision was made to build it open source, so might as well start there from the beginning [16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: things will eventually be public, documented and announced, just not yet [16:23] currently booting reasonably well on broadwell and skylake NUCs and…
Hmm, Travis Geiselbrecht of NewOS, Danger and BeOS fame and Brian Swetland of BeOS fame as well? Interesting.
I did also work on this Android thing that shipped on a few phones over the years, as well as on Danger/HiptopOS.
(Not that I'm not proud of my BeOS work, but that was almost 20 years ago now...)
Travis should get credit for work on iOS and WebOS too, if we're keeping score, I suppose!
Re: Fuchsia, a new operating system
#10Some useful bits from IRC: [16:21] Why's it public (mirrored to GitHub even) but not announced or even documented what it's for? [16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: the decision was made to build it open source, so might as well start there from the beginning [16:22] ocdtrekkie_web: things will eventually be public, documented and announced, just not yet [16:23] currently booting reasonably well on broadwell and skylake NUCs and…
The original title of the thread was indeed "Fuchsia. (a new operating system from Google?)"
I came here through the RSS feed, and likely would have ignored it without the "Google" mention.