Re: [wlug] Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook: It works! It actually works!

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:04:29 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:

'Fuchsia is a bunch of code sitting on fuchsia.googlesource.com.'

-- source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/googles-fuchsia-os-on-the-pixelbook-...

Based on a microkernel, apparently <https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/zircon>. I thought that battle had already been fought and lost over about the last 30 years or so. MINIX and Hurd remain niche products, and the BSDs only gained what popularity they have by compromising on the purity of the microkernel concept. Linux has very clearly demonstrated the superiority, even the sheer versatility and flexibility, of the modular kernel architecture. Nothing else seems likely to ever come close.