Google is working on “microfuchsia,” a stripped down version of the company’s Fuchsia operating system that runs on the Google Nest Hub.

Google is working on “microfuchsia,” a stripped down version of the company’s Fuchsia operating system that runs on the Google Nest Hub.

  • @[email protected]English
    16•5 months ago

    It’s not clear why Google wants to do this, but one theory is that it’ll run some workloads more optimally and securely than microdroid.

    Microdroid is a “Parallel Virtual Machine”. The idea is to offload part of the responsibility of an app to this VM so that it can execute in an environment that is more secure than what Android can guarantee.

    So nobody knows why but (in typical Fuchsia fashion) it probably isn’t something a consumer would even know or care about.