googloids/androids have a big chunk of kernel which is closed source, and it is nowhere documented/published what it does on "your" device. So, neither of googloids are open source, for that reason I also exclude these kernels from my list of linux kernels. Just my $0.02 Valeri On Fri, July 1, 2011 12:38 pm, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 09:41, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@xxxxxxx> > wrote: >> As if MeeGo, Maemo, Android, et al aren't actually running a Linux >> kernel. > > Linux kernel is only half the story. > > If I understood the explanation given to me some time ago, Android is > very restricted in the sense of the APIs available to the developer. > You don´t have X11 or other things you expect > on a Linux system, at least without deeply hacking into it which most > end-user consumers won´t do. > > Just my $0.02 > FC > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
