Fuchsia
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Key facts
- Developer
- Written in
- Rust , C++ , C , Dart , Go , Python , assembly language
- Os family
- Capability-based
- Working state
- Current
- Source model
- Open source
- Initial release
- 25 May 2021 ; 5 years ago ( 2021-05-25 )
- Latest release
- F30 / 7 April 2026 ; 2 months ago ( 7 April 2026 )
- Repository
- fuchsia .googlesource .com cs .opensource .google /fuchsia
- Available in
- English
- Supported platforms
- ARM64 , x86-64
- Kernel type
- Microkernel
- Influenced by
- Pink , Android , Unix kernel (but not Unix-like ), iOS
- Default user interface
- Ermine
- License
- BSD , MIT , Apache License 2.0
- Official website
- fuchsia .dev
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- real-time operating system
- Developer
- Platform
- ARM architecture
- Official website
- fuchsia.dev
- Image
- Screenshot of Google Fuchsia (July 2017).png
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- programmed in
- Go
- user manual URL
- fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/the-book
- inception
- 2016-08-15
- copyright license
- Apache License
- language of work or name
- English language
- source code repository URL
- fuchsia-review.googlesource.com
- IRC channel URL
- irc://irc.freenode.net/fuchsia
- Commons category
- Google Fuchsia
- native label
- Google Fuchsia
- build system
- ninja
- software version identifier
- F29
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Encyclopedic overview
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 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.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fuchsia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.