Posted on 08/15/2016 11:29:06 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Google appears to be working on a new operating system that's written from scratch and appears to be target both phones and PCs, among other form factors.
This new OS is called Fuchsia and powered by what they call the Magenta and LK kernel options. Google hasn't formally announced this new OS while the Git repository cites it as "Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)." This Git repository is the main source of Fuschia/Magneta information right now.
LK is their kernel for small systems / embedded applications while Magenta is designed for "modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors." Some more details via this documentation.
It will be interesting to see what Fuschia is all about once Google reveals more details and if it's more than just an interesting research project or perhaps the future for Android / Chrome OS.
I’m waiting for beige or mauve, maybe even chartreuse.
Magenta? So T-Mobile has their fingers in this somewhere...
fyi
White would be nice. Maybe an “off white”. They could call it Cracker white.
What will it do that’s not already being done?
Or is this just an industry method of assigning certain projects and services to certain employee team memebers; inside Basbball?
Fuchsia, powered by magenta - you "swish" a little bit every time you use it.
Some say this is the future of Chrome OS. Or it could be possibly an operating system that could be scaled between cellphones, tablet computers and Chromebook laptops under a single code base.
Well, after all T-Mobile was the first to release a commercially available Android phone.
Hm, and here I thought Google might jump on the use of formal methods proving — looks like they might miss that train altogether.
Isn't this another color that means "Queer", as in "Gay", as in Homosexual?
Might as well call it "lavender."
Back Doors...
Well, since they have already posted the source code and are developing it in public, it’s less likely to have backdoors than Windows or macOS.
“Stable” would be nice. Not sure that’s a color, but maybe we can make it one.
Yup, it’ll be even more laden with spyware than Windoze.
Sounds like Lightsaber Crystal colors from swtor ,someone must be a fan
“This new OS is called Fuchsia....”
Yeah, Google is telegraphing what they’re going to do to us.
Aren’t Apple OS’s with names like Greenland Shark and Wildebeest bad enough?
“This Operating System approved by Barack Obama”
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