Despite all of the rumors of its demise its continued to have a large number of daily commits to it the entire year so far. It’s clearly not “dead” I think medium to long term it still becomes the uber unified cross device operating system for them.
Chrome is taking a dependency on Androids underlying networking stack for now and picking up the ability to essentially run it in a VM and Android itself is also picking up the ability to run Fuchsia in a VM.
Fuchsia is picking up the ability to have full Linux compatibility as well via their Starnix efforts.
All of the pieces are starting to come together to make that more and more seamless until presumably at some point they are ready to start calling them the same thing fundamentally.
> Will be a disaster to make so many machines obsolete.
Not at all. Most Chromeboxes/books can be unlocked to install whichever OS the user wishes. I have like a half dozen of them happily running Debian, Manjaro and Alpine after unlocking and reflashing them with the firmware (Coreboot) at https://mrchromebox.tech/
They're really good quality hardware, and once given a proper OS they become very reliable mini PCs.
I wonder what's happening to Fuchsia, if anything at all.
Despite all of the rumors of its demise its continued to have a large number of daily commits to it the entire year so far. It’s clearly not “dead” I think medium to long term it still becomes the uber unified cross device operating system for them.
Chrome is taking a dependency on Androids underlying networking stack for now and picking up the ability to essentially run it in a VM and Android itself is also picking up the ability to run Fuchsia in a VM.
Fuchsia is picking up the ability to have full Linux compatibility as well via their Starnix efforts.
All of the pieces are starting to come together to make that more and more seamless until presumably at some point they are ready to start calling them the same thing fundamentally.
Sources
https://www.androidauthority.com/microfuchsia-on-android-345...
https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/components/v2/starn...
https://blog.chromium.org/2024/06/building-faster-smarter-ch...
I do too wonder.
Given the disruption of LLM everywhere, and in Google specifically, I wouldn't be surprised if the headcount was reduced in these teams as well.
Yes. They are clearly moving in that direction.
I hope though, that they "backport" this new core to existing devices too. Will be a disaster to make so many machines obsolete.
And to ChromeOS Flex too. Definitely.
> Will be a disaster to make so many machines obsolete.
Not at all. Most Chromeboxes/books can be unlocked to install whichever OS the user wishes. I have like a half dozen of them happily running Debian, Manjaro and Alpine after unlocking and reflashing them with the firmware (Coreboot) at https://mrchromebox.tech/ They're really good quality hardware, and once given a proper OS they become very reliable mini PCs.
Sure. But there is a reason some people prefer ChromeOS (Flex) to other Desktop Linux.