Google’s Fuchsia OS is rolling out to each first-gen Nest Hub

Google has began to push out the silent improve to its new Fuchsia working system on first-gen Nest Hub units (often known as the Google Home Hub on launch), that means the secretive undertaking can be broadly utilized by shoppers after years of opaque growth. The OS, which not like Android isn’t primarily based on Linux and makes use of a microkernel known as Zircon, was beforehand made out there to some units enrolled in a preview program again in May.

Now, Google has confirmed to 9to5Google {that a} new firmware replace for non-preview Nest Hub units consists of the Fuchsia improve, that means that each one first-gen units needs to be operating Fuschia already or very quickly. I simply checked the one on my desk — which Google explains the right way to do here — and positive sufficient, seems it’s on Fuchsia proper now.

You would possibly’ve thought I’d have seen {that a} gadget that I have a look at and work together with each day is operating a wholly new working system, however Google is making an attempt to make the expertise as near an identical as doable. Even the pokey efficiency on the first-gen Nest Hub seems to be very comparable, for higher or worse. The solely solution to know you might have Fuchsia is by checking the “About device” part of the settings menu, and even then the OS isn’t talked about by title.

That implies that the primary widespread Fuchsia deployment isn’t fairly as thrilling as the chances imagined when phrase of the undertaking first began getting out greater than 5 years in the past. At the identical time, it’s fairly spectacular that Google has managed to seamlessly substitute the core software program of a well-liked product in a means that most individuals gained’t ever discover.