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Android: A Better iPhone?
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| Of course, content has always been
| important. Why the focus here? Why now?
| Simply because todayâs mobile devices â
| starting with the iPhone â and now with
| newer, more capable devices including the
| Hero from HTC/Sprint, Droid from
| Motorola/Verizon, are simply awesome
| devices upon which to view content.
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http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7604/1.html
Google changes direction with Android Open Source Project
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| Google originally created the AOSP (Android
| Open Source Project) so that the community
| had full visibility into platform evolution
| and decision-making. This allowed anyone
| who was interested in exploring and
| contributing to Android to use the Android
| Open Source Project resources.
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http://androidandme.com/2009/11/uncategorized/google-changes-direction-with-android-open-source-project/
Android: Linux--Only Different
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| It's true that Android doesn't carry over
| many of the device compatibility and other
| types of plumbing in most Linux distros,
| but there is no doubt that its Linux roots
| saved Google engineers from lots of coding
| and gave them a sense of direction as they
| shaped their new operating system. Embedded
| versions of Linux don't carry over lots of
| userspace components, either.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/android-linux-only-different
Recent:
Android/Linux's Future and Advancement of Mobile Software Freedom
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| But first, let me point out where we agree: I
| think his recent blog post about what
| Android/Linux is not should be read by
| everyone interested in software freedom for
| mobile devices. (Harald's post also refers to
| a presentation by Matt Porter. I agree with
| Harald that talk is worth looking at closely.)
| The primary point Matt and Harald both make is
| one that Stallman has actually made for years:
| Linux is an operating system kernel, not a
| whole system for a user. That's why I started
| saying Android/Linux to refer to this new
| phone platform. It's just the kernel, Linux,
| with a bunch of Java stuff on top. As Matt
| points out, it doesn't even use a common
| Linux-oriented C Library, such as uClibc or
| the GNU C Library; it used a BSD-derived libc
| called Bionic.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/blog/2009/nov/04/android-vs-gnu/
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