> So why all is always "Linux > based" ? Because linux has an army of volunteers hacking up drivers for everybody's weird undocumented ever-changing hardware.
> "The software architecture is simple - Google Chrome running within a > new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel." It says "linux kernel" with no mention of multi-gigabyes of linux libraries and commands. The optimistic interpretation is that they've rediscovered Ron's idea of borrowing a linux kernel as a minimal (sic) device driver layer to put a sensible OS on top of, and throwing everything else away.
