New details have emerged about the development of the Aluminum operating system, which Google is developing for laptops, mini-PCs, and tablets in accordance with its platform merger plan. Android and Chrome OS. A transcript of a Google representative's testimony at a court hearing related to the US Department of Justice's antitrust case against Google mentions that support for Chromebooks running ChromeOS will continue until 2034, with the first mass-market products based on the Aluminum platform planned for 2028. Furthermore, they intend to begin publishing test solutions based on Aluminum as early as the end of this year.
Aluminium primarily uses the platform architecture and components Android, and the interface is close to the one being developed in the branch Android 16 desktop mode for large screens, allowing you to work with multiple application windows simultaneously, similar to a traditional desktop environment. The platform also utilizes individual system services, applications, firmware elements, background processes, and libraries from ChromeOS, as well as the application launcher interface ported from Chrome OS. Android the core is involved Linux, GKI modules (Generic Kernel Image), hardware access control components (HAL), Android Runtime, Android API, part of the system background processes and libraries.
Source: opennet.ru
