One of the greatest struggles of creating an entirely new OS, especially today, is the chicken-and-egg problem. Without good apps, why would consumers buy a product? And conversely, with no consumers, why would developers make apps?
We’ve looked, time and time again, at the possibility of Fuchsia getting Android compatibility, but what if it didn’t stop there? If Fuchsia is to be a full-fledged laptop/desktop OS, shouldn’t it also have some compatibility with apps for a traditional OS?
This is where the ‘Guest’ app becomes relevant. Guest allows you to boot up a virtual OS, inside of Fuchsia. Officially, Guest supports Zircon (Fuchsia) and Linux-based OSes (including Debian), but there’s also evidence that suggests it’s being tested to work with Chrome OS. At the time of writing, I’ve only been able to successfully test Guest with a simple version of Linux.
Fuchsia is clearly so much more than just a research operating system. There’s also a slightly older article from a few months ago looking at the various layers that make up Fuchsia, as well as various other articles about Google’s new operating system.
Is this gonna replace ChromeOS?
Probably. And (at least) the Linux part of Android.
Interestingly 9 to 5 google have a own section called “Fuchsia Friday”
https://9to5google.com/guides/fuchsia-friday/
Here all they have posted about Fuchsia
https://9to5google.com/?s=fuchsia
And there was a talk about Fuchsia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1m9fjMe0f0
Interesting page.
…that’s literally what the links in the blurb point to.
Gets updates all the time. Security updates at least once a month, system updates whenever there’s a new version of Android. It’s a Nokia, of course, and not even a flagship.
It seems that you wanted to write in http://www.osnews.com/story/30508/The_best_phone_to_buy_right_now
A short while ago there was a post about incorporating dual booting into the firmware of the PixelBook ( https://www.osnews.com/story/30485/It_looks_like_Google_is_readying_… ).
Deep down the links, there were more hints about dual booting Fuchsia than Windows 10.
As it will take time for general applications to appear for Fuchsia, it makes senses to allow Linux as a guest.
This incidentally likely enables Android and ChromeOS as guests on Fuchsia since they are based on the Linux kernel.
It would not be surprising if the next iteration of the PixelBook boots Fuchsia and allows “foreign” guests – Android and/or ChromeOS and/or Linux – as per the desire of the user.