Wednesday 18 April 2018

Google Fuchsia - An OS for Smartphones

Google Fuchsia is a capability based OS which was first popped up on Github in August 2016. As Android is based on Linux kernel, Fuchsia is based on Google's new microkernel called "Zircon". Zirkon which was previously known as Magenta is intended for embedded system and developed by a coder named Travis Geiselbrecht who also developed the NewOS kernel that power Haiku OS.

Fuchsia OS


Despite the origin, Fuchsia has the ability to run on smartphones, tablets and Desktop computer. Certain rumours which claims that Fuchsia will replace the Android OS in the smartphone. Due to its kernel, Google Fuchsia is able to do which couldn't be achieve by simply updating Android or Chrome. Fuchsia has the ability to scale up to larger devices like laptops or Computers and can support ARM, MIPS and X86 processor. Fuchsia also offer support to Google's Dart and Flutter. Dart is used to power Google's own program like Adwords.

Fuchsia current UI is called 'Armadillo'and is in infant stage. If you install Fuchsia on desktop, you will be using new UI called 'Capybara'. Basically Capybara is designed for keyboard and mouse and looks more like Chrome OS.