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Drawing the Line Between Android and Linux

Posted by timothy on from the one-of-these-not-like-the-other dept.

jfruhlinger writes "The relationship between Linux and Android is on a technical level not hard to grasp — there's a shared kernel, but the application and interface layers are quite different. But, as Brian Proffitt points out, there are differences of philosophy and of community — which hasn't stopped Adobe from touting its Android dev tools as proof of its devotion to Linux."

2 of 258 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Share the love by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now?
    http://www.android-x86.org/

  2. GNU/Linux by vagabond_gr · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So the GNU/Linux arguments start making a lot more sense now, aren't they? Cause if you just call it Linux, Android seems perfectly "Linux" to me.