2009/7/8 Richard Miller <9f...@hamnavoe.com>: >> 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.
Well a more realistic interpretation is somewhat more advanced than what's under android's hood, but still lacking full POSIX, we'll see. Kind regards, Anselm