Droid
Fairlight
fairlite at fairlite.com
Thu Oct 28 20:10:41 PDT 2010
Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Kenneth Brody done said:
>
> Well, to be fair, the Droid is apparently Linux-based. However, I don't see
> anything about it running "normal" x86 Linux apps.
My understanding is that it's not a linux distribution, it's an OS unto
itself. It uses a modified linux kernel, but that's about it. Developers
develop in Java. It's not like it's running X11 and you can just fire up
an xterm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29
And it would never run x86 binaries...it's an ARM architecture.
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