Fuchsia - Mobile OS
Project ‘Fuchsia’: Google Is Quietly Working on a Successor to Android
By Mark Bergen and Mark Gurman. July 19, 2018
... It’s being designed to better accommodate voice interactions and frequent security updates. ... The initiative is focused on better competing with Google’s chief smartphone rival, iPhone maker Apple Inc. While Android’s roughly 85 percent market share crushes Apple’s 15 percent, the Apple operating system has a leg up in areas like performance, privacy and security, and integration across Apple devices. ... Fuchsia uses a different kernel, called Zircon, that eschews many of the older technologies in Linux.
www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-19 ...
What is Google’s Fuchsia OS, anyway?
... Fuchsia uses its own special renderer, Escher, that specializes in shadows.
www.9to5google.com/2018/01/23/what-is-google-fuchsia-os
Google's not-Linux OS documentation cracks box open at last 'The Book', a first-draft programmer's Fuchsia how-to
By Richard Chirgwin 12 Apr 2018
www.theregister.co.uk/2018/04/12 ...