Google is making waves with its Android OS, the Linux-based operating system that is aimed at unifying mobile phone usage independent of carriers or brands. We like the idea quite a bit, but the Linux group itself doesn’t, and is making a competitor. As if we don’t have enough flavors of Linux as is.
We don’t see the new yet-unnamed version of Linux really hurting Android, as there’s no way they’ll have Google’s marketing and development dollars. That being said, many Android apps might run on the new OS, and we’re all about alternatives, so in all we love the idea. We hope it doesn’t suck.
Linux group moves ahead with Android alternative [Electonista]
This is sad, this is why Linux is always left behind.
^ Huh?
No Linux Left Behind!
It’s not so much that Android is Linux, but that that any program on it is created with a very, very simple-to-learn Java framework.