Fuchsia Developers Website
It will be very interesting to watch how Fuchsia evolves over the next couple of years. Especially what Google has planned for it.<p>It might be a small moonshot experiment to see if they can come with a sensible, modern OS.<p>It might also be the designated successor for Android&#x2F;Chrome OS, and the future of the Google ecosystem.<p>Conceptually, Fuchsia is interesting. It&#x27;s built on a microkernel (Zirkon) and a capabilities based system. Drivers are isolated elf binaries with a stable ABI, other normally privileged things like file systems are also isolated services.<p>On one hand, I find it promising as a application platform, both for mobile devices and desktops: while Linux  sandboxing capabilities are evolving (cgroups , namespaces, ...) , very little of the ecosystem is built around isolation as a primary concept, leading to all kinds of half-baked sandboxing and permission solutions: chroot, Flatpack, firejail, SELinux, (Docker, mentioned hesitantly since it&#x27;s mainly for server environments)...
All of which are somewhat tacked on an hard to use properly.<p>So a clean sheet design might be the best viable (practical) path.<p>On the other hand:<p>* this throws away decades of work on Linux<p>* many drivers will be closed source; open drivers are a major achievement of Linux<p>* Linux is a very collaborative effort with many stakeholders, while Google is known for keeping a very firm grip on their projects<p>Curios to hear other thoughts on this.