Fuchsia, the new Google Operating System?

Google quietly revealed last week that they have a brand new, and we mean brand new, operation system in development code named Fuchsia writes Jared Newman of Fast Company. Is this totally insane or the smartest move Google has ever made? Why a brand new operating system and especially one that will already compete with one of the world’s leading operating systems, Android?

Well, when you dig deeper the answer becomes obvious. You see, every operating system out there actually relies on and is built on old code. Or to get more technical, a ‘kernel’ that could, in fact, be decades old.

So the Google Geeks have decided to go right back to basics and start over. from the beginning, from scratch, as if this was the first operating system written. This time they will be writing the new code and kernel for the internet of things.
<blockquote class=”curated_content”>Last week, a group of Googlers did something strange: They quietly revealed a new operating system that theoretically competes with Google’s own Android OS.

Dubbed Fuchsia, the open-source OS-in-progress could run on everything from lightweight, single-purpose devices (think ATMs and GPS units) all the way up to desktop computers. But unlike Android, Fuchsia isn’t based on Linux, nor is it derived from any of the other software that underpins nearly all personal computing and communications today. Instead, it’s an attempt to start from scratch.

Google has yet to make any big announcements about how it might use Fuchsia, which is still in early development and could be nothing more than an experiment. Still, Google has plenty of reasons to hit reset on decades of software history.</blockquote>