{"id":4784,"date":"2019-07-26T11:51:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T11:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/?p=4784"},"modified":"2025-08-12T13:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T13:02:22","slug":"googles-new-os-fuchsia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/googles-new-os-fuchsia","title":{"rendered":"All About Google\u2019s New OS \u2018Fuchsia\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_76 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/googles-new-os-fuchsia\/#Series_of_developments\" >Series of developments<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/googles-new-os-fuchsia\/#Unravelling_Fuchsia\" >Unravelling Fuchsia<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/googles-new-os-fuchsia\/#Features_of_the_OS_kernel\" >Features of the OS kernel<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Series_of_developments\"><\/span>Series of developments<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Google has been teasing its new Fuchsia software for a while now, with only a small glimpse of its features and continuous media hype with every single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/custom-web-development.php\">development<\/a>. Earlier in 2019, Google hired a prominent Apple software engineer to bring the operating system into the market. There was an experimental browser version on GitHub since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>On 28th June, Friday, Google seized the domain of Fuchsia.dev through Mountain View, a California-based company. This launched the new developer support site, which essentially sealed the deal about the legitimacy of the Google Fuchsia OS as a Google initiative. However, even with this revelation, we do not know much about the Google OS, other than the fact that Google is looking forward to reinventing open sourcing-with Fuchsia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Unravelling_Fuchsia\"><\/span>Unravelling Fuchsia<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The Fuchsia Google is at its blueprint stage, containing details such as \u2018Glossary\u2019 and a \u2018Getting Started\u2019 guide where there are instructions for building and running apps that run on Fuchsia, apart from \u2018Code of Conduct\u2019, \u2018Development\u2019 and \u2018Contributing Changes\u2019. The most interesting section of the site has to be the System Documentation which tells you how Fuchsia works and is rather modular in nature, where it disposes of the familiar core components in favour of discrete functionality.<\/p>\n<p>It even reveals the technical details about Google Fuchsia, and also gives out a key detail that might determine a lot of what its target audience is, and to be precise, it is not built for Linux.<br \/>\nFor context, a lot of operating systems, for both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\">mobile<\/a> and desktop, are based on the Linux or UNIX kernel. Even Android is based on the Linux kernel. The Fuchsia OS, however, is based on a microkernel called Zircon, also previously known as Magenta.<\/p>\n<p>This is a completely new OS kernel, which is a big leap and risk for Google. This implies that the OS will be vastly different from the Android OS. The only devices it can support, as of now, are Google Pixelbook, Intel NUC, and Acer Switch Alpha 12.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Features_of_the_OS_kernel\"><\/span>Features of the OS kernel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Zircon was designed to scale to any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/custom-application-development.php\">application<\/a> from embedded RTOS, (an acronym for \u2018Real Time Operating Systems\u2019) to mobile and desktop devices of any kind. Other than being completely opposite to Android, there is also some speculation as to whether it might be the natural successor to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/mobile-application-development-company.php\">Android<\/a>, Chrome OS with respective to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.articlesreader.com\/chrome-flags\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chrome flags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It can combine the capabilities of both along with backward compatibility to run legacy applications built on both of them. In short, it is designed to run on anything from 32-bit and 64-bit ARM cores to 64-bit X86 processors, with the potential to be a disruptive discovery.<br \/>\nThis is almost everything we know about it, and it brings up many relevant questions, like whether or not a new OS kernel is required in the market, and whether or not Google will actually pull through with it. However, with its cross-platform compatibility and capabilities, it seems as though this might be a new breakthrough for technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Series of developments Google has been teasing its new Fuchsia software for a while now, with only a small glimpse of its features and continuous media hype with every single development. Earlier in 2019, Google hired a prominent Apple software &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/googles-new-os-fuchsia\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[474],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-4784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-google-fuchsia","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8030,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4784\/revisions\/8030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fullestop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}