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

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