'According to reports late last year, Google is working on a new
operating system called Andromeda. Much about it is still unknown, but
according to the documentations Google has provided on its website,
it's clear that the Fuchsia is the actual name of the operating
system, and the kernel is called Magenta. A tech enthusiast dug around
the documentations to share the followings:
To my naive eyes, rather than saying Chrome OS is being merged into
Android, it looks more like Android and Chrome OS are both being
merged into Fuchsia. It's worth noting that these operating systems
had previously already begun to merge together to an extent, such as
when the Android team worked with the Chrome OS team in order to bring
Update Engine to Nougat, which introduced A/B updates to the platform.
Google is unsurprisingly bringing up Andromeda on a number of
platforms, including the humble Intel NUC. ARM, x86, and MIPS bring-up
is exactly what you would expect for an Android successor, and it also
seems clear that this platform will run on Intel laptops. My best
guess is that Android as an API and runtime will live on as a legacy
environment within Andromeda. That's not to say that all development
of Android would immediately stop, which seems extremely unlikely. But
Google can't push two UI APIs as equal app frameworks over the long
term: Mojo is clearly the future. Ah, but what is Mojo? Well it's the
new API for writing Andromeda apps, and it comes from Chromium. Mojo
was originally created to "extract a common platform out of Chrome's
renderer and plugin processes that can support multiple types of
sandboxed content."'
-- source:
https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/17/02/15/1023242
Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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