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2009-10-19 , 17:33
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Originally Posted by spinnukur View Post
Yeah, I am stating Android is a different beast, because I didn't know Android was Linux based, I thought it was Google derived.
It more or less is. It only resembles Linux at the lower platform levels. It doesn't run X and it doesn't support the usual Linux toolkits. Although it's using the Linux kernel, the userspace is mostly Google-derived.

This, of course, is unlike Maemo which uses X and standard Linux desktop toolkits resulting in reasonably straightforward porting of your favorite Linux applications. Android is a mobile phone platform that's pretending to be a mobile computer platform, Maemo is actually is a mobile computer platform.
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