One of the most attractive things about the Fairphone, particularly with /e/OS, is that it is a largely European enterprise, or certainly free from US and Chinese clouds. However it is still largely driven by Android underpinnings.
Google had for a while been working on a replacement to Android they termed Fuchsia. It would incorporate lots of innovations that are exciting to those who follow operating system design such as microkernel and capability based security. The idea was that it would underpin the usual Android apps and services with a more modern system.
Here in Europe there is a similar project that commercialises research from Dresden University called Genode. It is already made to run quite successfully on the Pinephone. This includes a graphical means of shaping your own environment by granting capabilities to each app (this distro is called “Sculpt” for that reason); the advantage this would offer to those using untrusted apps from an app store are self evident.
What do we feel are the prospects of Genode / Sculpt being the underpinning of a future version of /e/OS, or even as a unique Fairphone operating system? The technology itself works well as those who acquaint themselves with the PC version, such as I have done, can testify. Even if the benefits were hard to quantify, and I have already identified one in this post, the idea of an entirely native European operating system (rather than “de-googled” android) appeals to me.