On: Fuchsia: a new operating system

[combatentropy]

  > They aren't writing a new OS,
  > at least, not in the complete sense.

Neither was Linux. It was based on Unix.

Neither was Unix. "The success of UNIX lies not so much in new inventions but rather in the full exploitation of a carefully selected set of fertile ideas . . . " --- Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, "The UNIX TimeSharing System"

[Wing0 → combatentropy]

Maybe Google got tired of "System D" trying to take too much control ...LOL!

OR it could be a UEFI experiment...

"This project contains some experiments in software that runs on UEFI firmware for the purpose of exploring UEFI development and bootloader development." -https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/bootlo...