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Google is often the target of conspiracy theories, but it is the only possible reaction to Fuchsia as there is no explanation as to what it is for, or more precisely what it will be used for. It has now graduated to open source you can contribute to. Why? The Google Open Source Blog says it all, but all isn’t much: «Fuchsia is a long-term project to create a general-purpose, open source operating system, and today we are expanding Fuchsia’s open source model to welcome contributions from the public.» The key phrase here is «general-purpose». Many speculate that Fuchsia is a possible replacement for Android, but if so it has just taken the first step in a thousand-mile journey. A system like Android is more than just an operating system, just as Linux is more than just the kernel. If you think that Fuchsia is just a remodelled Linux, then you need to think again as it is based on a microkernel called Zircon. Although OS development is so complex that calling it a microkernel is an oversimplification: «Although Fuchsia applies many of the concepts popularized by microkernels, Fuchsia does not strive for minimality.
