For years, my friend Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols has been trying to turn Linux into something it is not: A successful and popular desktop operating system... His latest foray into "Linux is the next big thing" is a discussion of Google's Android operating system running on future netbooks... This is simply wrong.
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Balzac
15 years 29 weeks 1 day 10 hours ago
Android is Linux without GNU
It's neutered. I wouldn't develop for Android. Why wouldn't I want the GNU user-space on my mobile device?
Android is not suitable for a serious computer user, so it doesn't belong on netbooks or desktops.
Still, it's better than windows.