"linuxy" smartphones

S P Arif Sahari Wibowo arifsaha-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Feb 18 04:47:52 UTC 2010


On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> Well technically that is what Linux is.  Not sure what else 
> the android OS uses.

Apparently I was wrong, just found out that the Android's kernel 
is principally not even a Linux (anymore). :-) Google failed to 
both maintain their code in kernel tree and merge it to main 
tree, and was removed. So Android kernel in principle is now a 
fork of Linux.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=b0a0ccfad85b3657fe999805df65f5cfe634ab8a
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/android_driver_code_deleted_from_linux_kernel/

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