It’s less than a month before Google releases a slew of new software services including Allo, Duo, and Android Nougat, but the company is apparently cooking something that may go beyond what its mobile operating system can offer.
Spotted in the Git repository, developers at Google are working on a new operating system dubbed Fuchsia OS, and it may be meant for mobile phones, computers, and other devices. There’s a high possibility that this is the rumored merger between Android and Chrome OS, the system that runs Google’s Chromebooks — it’s the only operating system that has been rumored to be in the works, even before Google announced Android apps would be compatible with Chrome OS.
Still, there’s a chance that this could also be something completely new — the description in the repository says “Pick + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System), and those colors do not represent either Android or Chrome OS.
According to Hacker News, Travis Geiselbrech, who worked on NewOS, BeOS, Danger, Palm’s webOS and iOS, and Brian Swetland, who also worked on BeOS and Android, are involved in this project.
The new, mysterious operating system will be powered by the Magenta and LK kernel. “LK is a kernel designed for small systems typically used in embedded applications.” reads the repository. “On the other hand, Magenta targets modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of RAM with arbitrary peripherals doing open-ended computation.”
There’s a lot of discussion going around about what exactly all of this could mean for the new operating system, and whether or not this is indeed meant for an Android and Chrome OS merger, or for something new. We have reached out to Google for confirmation, but chances are we won’t find out anything new for a while.
Source: Digital Trends
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