Ubuntu running Google Android. Does it matter?

May 27, 2009, 15:06 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Sean Michael Kerner)

""I know that others have built Android for x86," Frey wrote. " After digging deeper I realized that this is not enough to make it "run" under Ubuntu. It turns out that Android uses it own version of libc and all binaries get linked against that. This causes a problem when a libc already exists on your system.""

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