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Here’s a list of syscalls: https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/docs/s...
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| Aug 2016 | 2016-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| Sep 2016 | 2016-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2016 | 2016-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2016 | 2016-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2016 | 2016-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2017 | 2017-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2017 | 2017-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2017 | 2017-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2017 | 2017-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jun 2017 | 2017-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2017 | 2017-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2017 | 2017-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Sep 2017 | 2017-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2017 | 2017-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2017 | 2017-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2017 | 2017-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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9 sourcesI poked around and didn't see any Rust code, and the github stats say
C 49.0% C++ 45.4% Makefile 2.9% Assembly 1.1% Shell 0.8% Objective-C 0.4%
https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta
In Why Is Google Building a New Operating System from Scratch?Yeah, I've been trying since November 2015 to get Automattic to understand the Facebook BSD+PATENTS problem with their Calypso frontend to WordPress that uses React. Just added another comment to the issue linking back to this story:
"Replace React with Mithril for licensing reasons"
https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso/issues/650#issuecom...
Of course, that issue was rapidly closed with essentially a "we don't think there is anything to worry about here" -- ignoring that even if Automattic may not have patents to defend, any of their customers who has patents could face an issue using Calypso.
All this is made more confusing by the fact that Facebook changed the React license over time from Apache to BSD+WORSE_PATENTS and then to BSD+LESS_BAD_PATENTS. And it looks like Automattic may have started using React when it was Apache licens
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ed. So they got the rug pulled out from under them by trusting Facebook. I can wonder if their code might be considered to have grandfathered Apache patent licensing rights?
The Fuchsia license by Google (at least the one file I looked at) does not seem to me to be that different from other FOSS Patent licenses in that it is not as broad as Facebook's and just covers patent claims about Fuchsia itself. So I would not put it in the same category as React's much broader PATENT retaliation clause which applies for any disagreement over any patents with Facebook whether they are related to React or not. So it is more like if you sue about Fuchsia patents you can't use Fuchsia.
https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/PATENT...
(For context, swetland is currently the main contributer to Magenta, Fuchsia's kernel: https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/graphs/contributor...)
In First Rule of Google Fuchsia OS Is to Not to Talk About ItMaybe Google got tired of "System D" trying to take too much control ...LOL!
OR it could be a UEFI experiment...
"This project contains some experiments in software that runs on UEFI firmware for the purpose of exploring UEFI development and bootloader development."
-https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/bootlo...
In Fuchsia: a new operating systemGoogle is currently developing an alternate kernel which will be MIT licensed. They've been removing GPL from userspace as fast as they can, and now it seems they want to remove it from the whole system.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/15/12480566/google-fuchsia-ne...
https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/LICENS...
In Pinebook ARM Linux Laptop Powered by Allwinner A64 CPUFuchsia: Micro kernel written in C by Google
22 points · Open discussionIs it? I'm not so sure. Certainly the presence of LittleKernel, a lightweight real-time kernel suggests it's an RTOS but that kernel is wrapped by something called 'Magenta' which says "Magenta targets modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of ram with arbitrary peripherals doing open ended computation." [1]
[1] https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/docs/m...
In Fuchsia, a new operating systemHosted on https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/ is what looks like an early in development operating system.
Mirrored on Github where it's described as Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)
The kernel component 'Magenta' reveals it "targets modern phones and modern personal computers with fast processors, non-trivial amounts of ram with arbitrary peripherals doing open ended computation." [1]
[1] https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/magenta/blob/master/docs/m...
In Fuchsia, a new operating system