Google Begins Testing Its Fuchsia OS on Pixelbook , II Google testing unreleased Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

Google has started testing its Fuchsia Operating System (OS) on the $1000 Pixelbook hybrid laptop that was unveiled alongside the second-generation Pixel smartphone and Google Home Mini smart speaker at the company's 2017 hardware event in California, reports said. "This isn't your typical developer operating system, and you'll need two machines to host and target a Pixelbook to load the OS. It's interesting that Google has chosen its own Pixelbook to experiment with," The Verge reported on Wednesday.

"Fuchsia has mostly been linked to embedded systems like wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the past, but testing was expanded to Intel's NUC and Acer's Switch Alpha 12 Chromebooks," it added. The Pixelbook installation process for Fuchsia is not easy and the tech giant has reportedly recommended installing the OS with a USB drive.

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Fuchsia OS has been open-sourced for the developer community to help build, test and evolve. It is different from the Linux kernels that are also the foundation of Android and Chrome OS. The operating system, which is being developed, is Google's third operating system for Chrome OS and Android. 

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It has been described as targeting "modern phones and modern personal computers" that would put it in competition with both of Google's existing operating systems, according to tech website Ars Technica.

Google testing unreleased Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

Google has expanded the testing of its mysterious Fuchsia OS to its recently released Pixelbooks. The operating system differs from Google's Android and Chrome operating systems, although Google has yet to reveal its purpose

Google has invited developer to begin testing its unreleased operating system dubbed ‘Fuchsia’ on its recently released Chrome OS-based Pixelbook. Although developed in plain sight as an open source project, Google has yet to reveal any details with regard to what it might have planned for the operating system. In its current iteration, there is no GUI, so there are few clues as to how it might be deployed.

Developers that have delved into the code have likened it to something like a built-from-scratch Android OS. Fuchsia will run within the open source emulator QEMU, however, as it the operating system requires Vulcan support to reveal its graphics stack, all that is currently visible on the front end to developers is a command line as QEMU doesn’t support Vulcan.

A key difference between Fuchsia and Google’s Android and Chrome operating systems is that it isn’t built on the Linux kernel. Instead, Fuchsia has been built on top of Google’s own Zircon microkernel. With testing now expanding to Chromebooks, some are speculating that this could be Google’s successor to the defunct ‘Andromeda’ project that was aiming to merge the Android and Chrome operating systems.

Google Begins Testing Its Fuchsia OS on Pixelbook , II Google testing unreleased Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook

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