WE ALREADY KNEW that Google was working on a third OS dubbed Fuchsia, and now we can finally see what the firm’s potential Android replacement looks like.
Unlike Android and Chrome OS, Fuchsia OS – which first broke cover, albeit barely, last August – ditches Linux in favour of a new Google-developed microkernel called “Magenta”, which the firm describes as targeting “modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of RAM with arbitrary peripherals doing open-ended computation.”
