Remember Google's Fuchsia operating system, which would have been a replacement operating system for Android? We haven't heard from Google about Fuchsia for almost a year now. The development scene also appears to be inactive now.
For starters, Fuchsia is an experimental operating system from Google that uses a new Zicron kernel and aims primarily to create an ecosystem of always-connected devices that not only work smart, but are powerful as well. The operating system supports Flutter applications and is written in C, C ++, Dart, Python, Go, and Rust programming languages.
DahliaOS is a fork of Fuchsia OS and although the Zicron kernel variant is still in development, its Linux counterpart is already available.
The operating system is currently in its alpha stage of development, and you can try it out in your browser by visiting https://web.dahliaos.io/#/.
Another boring Linux distro?
Pangolin-Desktop looks like some of the Android distributions like Phoenix OS and Remix OS. We certainly see this project going a long way if it is done well. That said, you can't use it as a daily driver because Wi-Fi and Bluetooth don't work.
I liked the concept of Internet Recovery. If something is wrong with the system, DahliaOS will download and boot from the image to help get you back up and running.
The operating system also has a marketplace for third party Flutter apps and can also run apps from other operating systems using the container app.
Thanks to the Buildroot build system, the operating system compiles into a 160MB image file. For this reason, it only uses 199MB of RAM when idle, which is impressive.
We tested the Linux variant, but the Zicron variant can only be run on these devices. You will need a minimum of 512MB of RAM and a 64-bit dual-core processor with Intel HD Graphics to run DahliaOS.
For more information on supported hardware, see the DahliaOS documentation on Github.
If you want to try DahliaOS, head over to this link and download "dahliaOS-201004-efi.zip". Save it to a USB stick using Rufus and boot into the operating system using the boot options menu.
It's always thrilling to see near-dead projects brought to life by the ever-on-the-go developer community.
What do you think of DahliaOS? Let us know in the comments section below.
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