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Google has started building an open source operating system (OS) that does not rely on the Linux kernel.
Instead of the Linux kernel, the new OS uses Magenta, which itself is based on LittleKernel, a rival to commercial OSes for embedded systems such as FreeRTOS and ThreadX. That project is designed to be used in embedded systems, i.e., computers that have specialised functions and often don’t need actual operating systems.
So the question that’s doing the rounds – could this be a software for the Internet of Things (IoT)? At present, Google has the Android-based IoT platform called Brillo. Maybe, say analysts, Google was looking to unify Android, Chrome and others into a single operating system.
Christopher Anderson and Brian Swetland, the two developers acknowledged on Fuchsia’s GitHub page, have backgrounds in embedded systems. Swetland is a senior software engineer at Google and Anderson is a veteran of Google’s Android TV and Nexus Q projects.