> If you look at the Android software stack, you will notice that they > basically only use the Linux kernel and a few traditional 'helper' > libraries, written in C (jpg, png, etc). > But the bulk of the system is written from scratch. They even have > their own libc! Their own Java virtual machine, their own graphics > system, etc. etc. > I do believe all of this is very healthy. Fresh blood. Take the Dalvik > virtual machine for example. Basically they kick Sun somewhere, but > that may turn out to be a nice wake-up call for something like HotSpot > and similar established Java projects. IcedTea, GNU Classpath, etc. > At the same time they ignore pretty much everything the FOSS community > built over the last 10-20 years. > No X, no d-bus, no standard packaging system, ... > It's a fundamentally different approach from Openmoko.
Hehe, looks like the construct "GNU/Linux" becomes really usable now. But how do we call what Google creates now? "Android/Linux" ? "OHA/Linux" (Open Handset Alliance)? Andy -- Andreas Zuber Linux System-Ingenieur Puzzle ITC GmbH www.puzzle.ch Telefon +41 31 370 22 00 Direkt +41 31 370 22 49 Mobile +41 79 766 25 51 Fax +41 31 370 22 01 Puzzle ist Mitglied der ODF Alliance: <http://www.puzzle.ch/odfalliance/> _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community