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Life & fun · July 20, 2018

Fuchsia OS

Capability-based operating system.

Fuchsia OS launched on July 20, 2018 with 6 votes, #1,113 of 2,673 launches that month. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.

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Fuchsia is a capability-based operating system currently being developed by Google. It first became known to the public when the project appeared on GitHub in August 2016 without any official announcement.

Fuchsia is an open-source capability-based operating system developed by Google . In contrast to Google's Linux -based operating systems such as ChromeOS and Android , Fuchsia is based on a custom kernel named Zircon. It publicly debuted as a Google-hosted Git repository in August 2016 [ 5 ] without any official corporate announcement. After years of development, its official product launch was in 2021 on the first-generation Google Nest Hub , replacing its original Linux -based Cast OS . Fuchsia is named for the color fuchsia , which is a combination of pink and purple. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The name is a reference to two operating systems projects within Apple which influenced team members of the…from en.wikipedia.org

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