On 07/08/2009 02:37 PM, Richard Miller wrote: >> 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.
But that's still a huge hog and spaghetti code; needs a lot of cleanup, which I don't think is going to happen in the near future. -- Balwinder S "bdheeman" Dheeman Registered Linux User: #229709 Anu'z li...@home (Unix Shoppe) Machines: #168573, 170593, 259192 Chandigarh, UT, 160062, India Plan9, T2, Arch/Debian/FreeBSD/XP Home: http://werc.homelinux.net/ Visit: http://counter.li.org/
