Daily Archives: 2021-05-25

Siemens acquires Supplyframe, owners of Hackaday and Tindie

Posted on 2021-05-25 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Oh, huh, Siemens did eat Hackaday and Tindie. That's a weird combination. Maybe they won't fuck it up.
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Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting with first-gen Nest Hub

Posted on 2021-05-25 by pappp

Source: OSNews

Article note: Neat, at lest in the "Modern high-seperation microkernel mature enough to use in real products" sense.

Google’s long-in-development, from-scratch operating system, Fuchsia, is now running on real Made by Google devices, namely, the first-generation Nest Hub.

Google has told us that as of today, an update is beginning to roll out to owners of the first-generation Nest Hub, first released in 2018. For all intents and purposes, this update will not change any of the functionality of the Nest Hub, but under the hood, the smart display will be running Fuchsia OS instead of the Linux-based “Cast OS” it used before. In fact, your experience with the Nest Hub should be essentially identical. This is possible because Google’s smart display experience is built with Flutter, which is designed to consistently bring apps to multiple platforms, Fuchsia included.

A big moment for the Fuchsia team, and the culmination of years and years of work. Google is clearly testing the waters here, allowing the brand new operating system to get some experience under its belt in a relatively controlled environment. Theoretically, Google could do the same transparent rollout on Android devices, since Fuchsia can run Android applications just fine – users wouldn’t even notice. However, I’m sure that is still a few years away.

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