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Originally posted by Britoid View PostWouldn't this only ever be useful for Android where each device/variant needs a fork of the kernel.
This feature is there only for Android, where it's uncommon to get sources for devices. With this system they would sneak the sources inside the actual build.
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Originally posted by Vistaus View PostSo then why have they hired that Apple veteran to work on Fuchsia and why are they working with Huawei on the first Fuchsia device?
Originally posted by Vistaus View PostFuchsia's gotta be *something* for them to hire that veteran and to work on actual consumer devices powered by it.
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Originally posted by starshipeleven View PostThis feature is there only for Android, where it's uncommon to get sources for devices. With this system they would sneak the sources inside the actual build.
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postbecause they want to use fuchsia for something and they want to release it on huawei hardware. where did you get all that "linux replacement" bullshit? was there some news of google hiring tens of thousands fuchsia devs?
sure, but there is shitload of veterans working on linux. all of apple btw can't compete with linux, so how one apple veteran is going to help?
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Originally posted by Vistaus View PostI never said Fuchsia was going to replace Linux? Not sure where you got that from, but I didn't bring that up. I simply implied that Fuchsia, as expected, is going to replace Android eventually. But Android =! Linux. It uses Linux, but it's more than just the kernel...
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Originally posted by pal666 View Postif vendor doesn't want to ship headers, why would he want to ship this module?
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