On 08/20/2010 08:40 AM, Tony Miller wrote: > I have read a few articles that suggest that they are actually quite > different. > http://mjg59.livejournal.com/100221.html Well, the article starts by saying two things: 1. I was not hired and may be bitter 2. Android is a Linux Kernel What is true is that there are specific changes made in a tree for the Android system, but if you read the main linux kernel list you will notice a lot of discussion right now about features that are being put into Android which may or may not get into the mainline kernel. There are many trees around that are not the mainline kernel. Android is no different. Sometimes changes made to android manage to get merged into the mainline kernel and sometimes they do not. Anyways, the Android kernel is a linux kernel, even though some people may call it a fork, especially in the news lately on slashdot and such. If you are running a distribution kernel, chances are that it contains distribution specific edits making it different from the current mainline kernel. Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29 Because linux is opensource software, Android is free to take a copy of it and modify it to work specifically for their platform, but the Android developers still work with the Linux community to get their patches added. Currently, there is a discussion running on suspend-blockers which is receiving a lot of attention. Quite different? Not really. Modified? Sure. HTH, Wouter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
