Thread: Unix is the Sanscrit of the age of computers.
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2010-04-10 , 06:54
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Originally Posted by smoku View Post
http://www.linuxfordevices.com/c/a/L...Mobile-Phones/
Android is, to paraphrase Google, not Linux. There is no absolute technical reason you could not run Android on a Windows CE or Symbian back-end, they simply have not done so.

And LiMo is similarly Linux-in-kernel-only, using an entirely closed userspace stack (done so deliberately.)

Originally Posted by lma View Post
Plus a few non-Linux *nixen such as found on a range of phones made by a certain fruity company, and last year's sidekick that runs NetBSD.
Both of which make an explicit effort to hide the *nix backend.

What about the Openmoko Neo & Freerunner then?
Were both even less mass-market than the N900, had (IIRC) software and hardware issues. Awesome concept, not so awesome execution.