Google Fuchsia release date, news and rumors
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If we look at recent releases of Android, it has taken on the update scheme of ChromeOS by detaching the Android layer from the Linux kernel. Meaning that Google can push updates to the Android layer without having to deal with hardware suppliers and carriers dragging their feet.
While at the same time ChromeOS is getting the ability to run Android apps.
Running modern kernels and upstreaming out of tree patches is the only reasonable way of supporting & securing these phones and tablets long term in a cost effective, until Google puts their foot down and says "No more custom BSPs", the horrible mess that is Android's security nightmare won't cease.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/nsdi18/nsdi18...
Yes, if you just want to throw out guesses based on limited information then 2019 does seem at least plausible, but that's by no means certain.
Please implement this with an open-standard API (WebDAV?) so that multi-device OS/app state can be synchronized to a self-hosted and hardened device.
I think that's it.
https://9to5google.com/2018/02/02/fuchsia-friday-the-ledger/
For some background.
It would be nice if people get interested in this and start coding before it's a done deal.
That this centralized Ledger is something that will be deployed at scale (in true Google fashion, I expect avoiding it will require a fork, at once keeping the open source warm feelings around its brand alive and making it so only the obstinate will even try. But even default with opt-out would cover over 99% of users) confirms my new belief:
Every article about Facebook and privacy should have the word "privacy" replaced with "Mark Zuckerberg's unsettling, mildly robotic countenance and demeanor".
Just kidding; we don't know the release date.
Until you can run real apps, how can it compete with PC clones and Macs?
I do appreciate my Chromebook a lot, but there isn't even a decent video player for it...I mean, it isn't a real OS despite all the hype.
Sure, Photoshop and Lightroom are both mobile versions, but I have a feeling that maybe WebAssembly will tempt Adobe and others to at least try to build their all's for the generation growing up with Chromebooks on school.
Linux is already there, what insight would it bring to do the same thing again?
While Fuchsia is MIT/BSD/Apache licensed, is written in a mix of C++, Rust, Go and Dart, while using the best practices from micro-kernels.
Google isn't willing to address the root issues of upstreaming their device specific code and pushing updates often like Nokia has with their Android line and Microsoft did with the exact same vendors with Windows Phone. Until Google forces their licensees to upstream the BSP patches they create, nothing will change.
In addition they could decouple the rest of the Android stack so it can upgraded and run on either of the currently supported kernel versions.
Oh wait, already done.
Now, you wanna talk jokes, let's talk about the history of Microsoft's products, such as Windows. It is hard to keep a Windows machine going for over a year, no matter how careful you are.
I think, all things considered, that Google bakes excellent security into everything it does.
Which was quite good the adoption being so bad, because they finally announced at IO that they will be requiring updates for certification after P's release.
They announced at Google IO that they will finally start requiring updates as part of the store access certification.
How this will work out, remains to be seen.