Google's 'Aluminium OS' Will Eventually Replace ChromeOS With Android (androidauthority.com) 35
Google's long-rumored plan to merge ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop operating system now has a name: Aluminium OS, AndroidAuthority reports, citing a job listing.
The job listing explicitly tasks applicants with "working on a new Aluminium, Android-based, operating system." The job listing confirms Google intends to eventually replace ChromeOS entirely, though the two platforms will coexist during a transition period. Aluminium OS won't be limited to budget hardware -- the listing references "AL Entry," "AL Mass Premium," and "AL Premium" tiers across laptops, detachables, tablets, and mini-PCs.
The job listing explicitly tasks applicants with "working on a new Aluminium, Android-based, operating system." The job listing confirms Google intends to eventually replace ChromeOS entirely, though the two platforms will coexist during a transition period. Aluminium OS won't be limited to budget hardware -- the listing references "AL Entry," "AL Mass Premium," and "AL Premium" tiers across laptops, detachables, tablets, and mini-PCs.
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The point is to explicitly extend android to be more 'laptop/desktopy'. So it's still a linux distribution, and looks like it won't be *really* distinct from Android....
Aluminum (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Aluminum (Score:5, Funny)
What will they call it in the US ?
RedundantOS.
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What will they call it in the US ?
We'll just ignore the extra i
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What will they call it in the US ?
We should call it "job incomplete".
Most common metals have a simple one or two syllable name: Iron, Copper, Tin, Zinc, Lead, Nickel, Silver, Gold, etc.
The USA recognized that to some extent and got started by chopping off one extraneous syllable, paring it down from five to four. However, once it was realized that Al would be a common everyday material like iron, we should have gone ahead and pruned it all the way down to two syllables, maybe something like "Alem".
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Davy, who isolated the metal, first called it alumium, and changed his mind to aluminum. The British scientific press overruled him and renamed it aluminium.
Aluminum is most correct, in the sense that we should respect the naming wishes of the person who put in the work.
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Brilliant! Of course, there is the small matter of their already being a whole class of chemicals called alum X-P
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Al AI (Score:4, Funny)
Is the purpose of this just to allow confusing abbreviations so you can say you're using AI on Al?
Re: Al AI (Score:3)
This is why serifs are necessary. This right here.
it's exactly (Score:1)
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Anything article that isn't about AI is at least holding back the horde.
Fuchsia (Score:2)
I thought the replacement was Fuchsia !?
Oh wait, that's right... This is the company that brought you: Voice, Chat, Talk, Hangouts, Google+, Groups, Meet, Messages, SMS, RCS, Gmail.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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I thought the replacement was Fuchsia !?
That's because you made an assumption. Google never publicly said Fuchsia was a replacement for ChromeOS, nor Android.
Will it cause autism? (Score:1)
Right... with the Zephyr Kernel? (Score:3)
There are so many half-finished and abandoned efforts by Google that I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for this one to finally get pushed out. I heard for years that Android was abandoning Linux for their own Zephyr RTOS but alas, it was exiled to the Island of Misfit Toys.
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I'd rather they tried stuff and gave up on it if it didn't work, rather than forcing it on us because of the sunk cost fallacy. Imagine if Microsoft had scrapped Windows 8's new UI when it became clear that everyone hated it.
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I'm not saying they shouldn't have abandoned it, I'm saying there is a tendency to make bold proclamations about the future (either by Google or media outlets) that do not reflect reality and thus should not be taken at face value. As such, it's more accurate to say that Google "plans to eventually replace Android" rather than stating it as a fact.
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Indeed, I've lost count of how many attempts this has been now.
Re: Right... with the Zephyr Kernel? (Score:2)
I thought zephyr was an Intel thing...
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I meant to write Fuchsia. Zephyr is by Wind River Systems. My bad but you can see how it's hard to keep who's making what straight.
Perhaps you are thinking of MINIX because it was discovered that Intel uses MINIX 3 for their Intel Management Engine.
Mass Premium (Score:2)
It's premium, but it's for the mass market?
Are end users going to be asked to decide whether they are Mass or Mass Premium buyers?
Did Google hire someone from Redmond?
"Mass Premium" is the sort of branding brilliance that I've come to expect from Microsoft. I wonder how long they argued over calling the top version "Premium Pro."
How many times will the announce this? (Score:2)
I'm honestly not sure it is a great idea. When it comes to non-phone form factors, I've had both Android and ChromeOS tablets and laptops, and ChromeOS is far better for the task. You can add the Google Play store to it, so it can run Android apps just fine if needed. You can also enable Linux apps. It is smart enough to switch between tablet and laptop mode depending on if the keyboard is there. It isn't a jarring difference, but it does shift a few things to work better with a touchscreen vs keyboard.
It s
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They don't care if it's enshitified, they only care if they can coerce enough manufacturers to make it the only thing on low-to-mid priced devices.
so will there be hardware locked OS builds that do (Score:2)
so will there be hardware locked OS builds that don't updates? and even say stuff like the t-mobile version that has even slower updates?
Is it Transparent Aluminum? (Score:2)
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Who knows? Maybe they invented it.
Wow, it's only taken 15 years for this to happen (Score:2)
Wow, it's only taken about 15 years for this to finally happen.
I don't understand the delay.