{"id":116834,"date":"2020-12-08T17:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T01:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/google-is-still-making-its-mysterious-fuchsia-os-and-now-it-wants-your-help"},"modified":"2020-12-08T17:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T01:22:42","slug":"google-is-still-making-its-mysterious-fuchsia-os-and-now-it-wants-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/google-is-still-making-its-mysterious-fuchsia-os-and-now-it-wants-your-help","title":{"rendered":"Google is still making its mysterious Fuchsia OS, and now it wants your help"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s been four years, and we still don\u2019t really know what Google intends to do with this OS.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s been over four years since we first found out that Google is developing a new operating system called Fuchsia. It\u2019s unique because it\u2019s not based on a Linux kernel; instead, it uses a microkernel called Zircon. It\u2019s also unique because, despite being developed \u201cin the open\u201d on publicly browsable repositories, nobody really understands what the OS is for, and Google executives have been remarkably coy about it all.<\/p>\n

Today, that mix of trends continues as the company announces that it\u2019s opening up a little more by asking for more public contributors from outside its organization. Google says it has \u201ccreated new public mailing lists for project discussions, added a governance model to clarify how strategic decisions are made, and opened up the issue tracker for public contributors to see what\u2019s being worked on.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a while since we\u2019ve seen a dive into the code and documentation Google has made available, though there are some early UI examples<\/a>. Google\u2019s post today emphasizes that \u201cFuchsia is not ready for general product development or as a development target,\u201d but it\u2019s likely that the announcement will spur another round of analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been four years, and we still don\u2019t really know what Google intends to do with this OS. It\u2019s been over four years since we first found out that Google is developing a new operating system called Fuchsia. It\u2019s unique because it\u2019s not based on a Linux kernel; instead, it uses a microkernel called Zircon. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-governance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}