Google is building a new operating system

Google is working on a new operating system — and it has nothing to do with Android.

A page has surfaced on the code-sharing website GitHub about the new OS, called — for now, at least — Fuchsia.

It's not based on Android, the California-based technology company's mobile operating system used in billions of smartphones around the world, nor does it build upon the Linux kernel.

The GitHub page is pretty sparse on explainers: Its description is simply, "Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)."

There has been no official announcement from Google, and it sounds as if the open-source project is in its early days. "The decision was made to build it open source, so might as well start there from the beginning," Google employee Brian Swetland said in an IRC chatlog shared on Hacker News.

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