Why Rolling Android into Linux is a Failure for Desktop Linux | Linux Today

Why Rolling Android into Linux is a Failure for Desktop Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 27, 2012

[ Thanks to James Maguire for this link. ]

Up until recently, Linux and Android have been two
separate open source projects with two separate identities. But now
with the release of the new version 3.3 of the Linux kernel, the
two projects have begun an assimilation into a single entity.

What does this mean for Android and Linux on the desktop?
Android started out life as a fork that Google branched off from
the original Linux project. But now, after months of effort, the
two tines of the fork are once again ready to be unified.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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