Zircon Fair Scheduler
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Zircon Fair Scheduler
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Re: Zircon Fair Scheduler
#2This post has sky-rocketed to the top! I'm genuinely curious: can someone explain what's cool/interesting/important about this (maybe EL5)? Thanks!
Re: Zircon Fair Scheduler
#3This post has sky-rocketed to the top! I'm genuinely curious: can someone explain what's cool/interesting/important about this (maybe EL5)? Thanks!
Well, Google intends for this new OS to replace Android. They'll need to convince the public that this new OS is somehow better than Android, which everyone has come to know and love. It seems that they believe the best way to do that is a grassroots approach beginning with tech discussion hubs like HN and Reddit.
Of course, they could have just meme'd hard about the fact that they're moving away from evil Oracle technology and we'd have already all been on board.
Re: Zircon Fair Scheduler
#4This post has sky-rocketed to the top! I'm genuinely curious: can someone explain what's cool/interesting/important about this (maybe EL5)? Thanks!
Depending on how internal politics play out at Google, Android's kernel might eventually be replaced by Fuchsia (ART is already being ported, commits are visible on AOSP).
And Fuchsia is mikrokernel based.
Re: Zircon Fair Scheduler
#5This post has sky-rocketed to the top! I'm genuinely curious: can someone explain what's cool/interesting/important about this (maybe EL5)? Thanks!
Well, Google intends for this new OS to replace Android. They'll need to convince the public that this new OS is somehow better than Android, which everyone has come to know and love. It seems that they believe the best way to do that is a grassroots approach beginning with tech discussion hubs like HN and Reddit. Of course, they could have just meme'd hard about the fact that they're moving away from evil Oracle tec…
> Well, Google intends for this new OS to replace Android.
Can you point me to anything that demonstrates that intention?
Re: Zircon Fair Scheduler
#6This post has sky-rocketed to the top! I'm genuinely curious: can someone explain what's cool/interesting/important about this (maybe EL5)? Thanks!
Well, Google intends for this new OS to replace Android. They'll need to convince the public that this new OS is somehow better than Android, which everyone has come to know and love. It seems that they believe the best way to do that is a grassroots approach beginning with tech discussion hubs like HN and Reddit. Of course, they could have just meme'd hard about the fact that they're moving away from evil Oracle tec…
It is very easy to convince the public, OEMs are the ones that need to be convinced.
ART is already being ported into Fuchsia and Linuxisms are not part of NDK stable APIs.
So managed Android apps will just work, and NDK libraries only need to be recompiled.
Re: Zircon Fair Scheduler
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, Google intends for this new OS to replace Android. They'll need to convince the public that this new OS is somehow better than Android, which everyone has come to know and love. It seems that they believe the best way to do that is a grassroots approach beginning with tech discussion hubs like HN and Reddit. Of course, they could have just meme'd hard about the fact that they're moving away from evil Oracle tec…
> Well, Google intends for this new OS to replace Android. Can you point me to anything that demonstrates that intention?
Currently it's just rumors that it will replace Android based on Fushia and Flutter's target devices. You can see a summary on [the wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia).
Re: Zircon Fair Scheduler
#8This post has sky-rocketed to the top! I'm genuinely curious: can someone explain what's cool/interesting/important about this (maybe EL5)? Thanks!
I don’t care about the android aspects. I’m just fascinated by OS development. Fuschia is a new capabilities-secure microckernel OS backed by Big Google, so it’s got a lot of potential and engineering support behind it. I read and upvote pretty much anything about Fuschia.
Re: Zircon Fair Scheduler
#9This post has sky-rocketed to the top! I'm genuinely curious: can someone explain what's cool/interesting/important about this (maybe EL5)? Thanks!
Well, Google intends for this new OS to replace Android. They'll need to convince the public that this new OS is somehow better than Android, which everyone has come to know and love. It seems that they believe the best way to do that is a grassroots approach beginning with tech discussion hubs like HN and Reddit. Of course, they could have just meme'd hard about the fact that they're moving away from evil Oracle tec…
Nothing, at all, has demonstrated that they plan it to replace Android -- that was a narrative various tech blogs invented. Nor would it have any benefit in moving away from the Java inspired/cloned underpinnings of the Android user layer.
Google has a variety of initiatives, and they really like reinventing things (which can sometimes yield great outcomes). This is a kernel that is in contrast with Linux.
Re: Zircon Fair Scheduler
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, Google intends for this new OS to replace Android. They'll need to convince the public that this new OS is somehow better than Android, which everyone has come to know and love. It seems that they believe the best way to do that is a grassroots approach beginning with tech discussion hubs like HN and Reddit. Of course, they could have just meme'd hard about the fact that they're moving away from evil Oracle tec…
It is very easy to convince the public, OEMs are the ones that need to be convinced. ART is already being ported into Fuchsia and Linuxisms are not part of NDK stable APIs. So managed Android apps will just work, and NDK libraries only need to be recompiled.
In that case it wouldn't have replaced Android at all -- It would have simply replaced the Android kernel, which happens to be Linux. And at that point you have to ask what is gained, and at this point the answer is "nothing".