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Some Android questions



Neat discussion,  I really believe in open source.  I love the Apple
IPhone but I would never own a phone that goes out of its way to
interfere with Linux users.  From what I've read Apple does not like
Linux.



On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Anthony Gabrielson
<agabrielson1-Wuw85uim5zDR7s880joybQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of
> Jared Carlson
> Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2010 5:14 PM
> To: Doug; discuss-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: Some Android questions
>
> In terms of the kernel, Anthony, from my brief experience at looking at it,
> you've basically seconded what I've seen. ?I cloned the adroid repo the
> other day and I believe in the bionic folder they house their BSD/Linux
> hybrid OS and as I delved deeper it looked like a little swiss cheese of
> various pieces. ?I noticed they have their optimized JVM but as I said, most
> of the folks I know are putting optimized C code on Droid phones to get that
> performance they want and so this mish-mash seems in line with what you've
> mentioned.
>
> It will be interesting though as a lot of folks are betting on Android...
>
> - Jared
>
>
>
> Hi Jared,
> ? ? ? ?I think I'm a lot more impressed with iPhone/iTouch. ?Android shares
> much of the same capability but from what I've seen, or perhaps better
> stated what I haven't seen, Apple seems to have better QA measures. ?Of
> course I have no visibility into Apple so that could all be smoke and
> mirrors...
>
> Anthony
>
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