"A job listing reveals the first details of Google’s fusion of Android and ChromeOS. "
“We know a little more about Google’s long-gestating plans to combine the best parts of Android and ChromeOS into a single OS thanks to a job listing for a product manager to work on ‘Aluminium OS.’ The job ad describes it as ‘a new operating system built with Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the core.’”
everybody definitely wants an even more locked down and ai bloated os than windows
Normally I would be excited. But now they build things with AI integrated.
You’d be excited for a Linux distro that’s less open and owned by Google? Forget about the AI, why would I want Android on my PC where better alternatives exist?
Nope.
I’d rather die
This one is more updated.
It’ll be cancelled before it even launches
Wasn’t there already something like “Android for x86”?
There’s also BlissOS if you want to run android on a desktop with a more desktop-like gui.
you can still compile it for x86, and run it on x86, waydroid uses android for x86, it runs natively under a container with its own android userspace sharing the “host’s” kernel
There used to be x86 Android phones. But they kept that port going even after the phones went away because it was good for development on x86 machines. You could just run a VM instead of having to emulate an arm ISA.
QEMU
QEMU is an emulator, what they’re talking about is an android port to x86.
Another body for the Google graveyard.
Sounds absolutely fucking awful.
I wouldn’t touch that with a stolen hand mounted on the end of a ten-foot barge pole.
Wasn’t this
ChromeFuschia?No, Fuchsia is a completely new OS, not using the Linux kernel at all.
That wasn’t built around agentic AI integration.
This will be.
damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.
I would’ve considered it if google were still anti-evil, after all, Microsoft has fucked up hard enough to push users away from free operating systems. but nope, Linux it will be. somehow to be simpler than dealing with ms or google bullshit
damn, I was fine turning it down before finding out it had AI at the core.
“AI at its core” is a BS marketing phrase. Obviously there is no AI in the actual operating system core.
I’m aware of that, and it’s still a huge detractor for me. clearly they’re focusing on non-value-added fluff
No thanks, I’m good
Hard pass.
Wasn’t this posted like a week ago without the paywall?
I think it was on Thanksgiving, but the last few days have felt like a week
