http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/01/08/possible-google-android-phone-storms-mobile-linux-market/ Technology news Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:59:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/01/08/possible-google-android-phone-storms-mobile-linux-market/comment-page-1/#comment-67176 Dan Jones Wed, 09 Jan 2008 01:47:29 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2008/01/08/possible-google-android-phone-storms-mobile-linux-market/#comment-67176 There are so many mistakes in this article. First of all, Android is not "just another flavor of Linux." When people refer to flavors of Linux, there are normally talking about a desktop type of Linux, i.e. GNU/Linux, i.e. a Linux kernel with GNU utilities running on top of it. Android is not that, and if you would look at the little diagram in this article, you would see that. Instead of GNU/Linux, it might be accurate to call it Dalvik/Linux, since Dalvik is the virtual machine that does the majority of the work. Second of all, you don't need Eclipse to develop Android apps. If you download the Android SDK, there are utilities provided that will let you build apps without Eclipse. It's not hard. Finally, I seriously doubt that someone saw Android running Opera. Opera is a closed-source browser, so the Opera folks would have to modify it themselves to run on Android. Such a modification would be a lot of work. Android already comes with a browser that's based on the Webkit rendering engine (the same that powers OS X's Safari web browser). There are so many mistakes in this article. First of all, Android is not “just another flavor of Linux.” When people refer to flavors of Linux, there are normally talking about a desktop type of Linux, i.e. GNU/Linux, i.e. a Linux kernel with GNU utilities running on top of it. Android is not that, and if you would look at the little diagram in this article, you would see that. Instead of GNU/Linux, it might be accurate to call it Dalvik/Linux, since Dalvik is the virtual machine that does the majority of the work.
Second of all, you don’t need Eclipse to develop Android apps. If you download the Android SDK, there are utilities provided that will let you build apps without Eclipse. It’s not hard.
Finally, I seriously doubt that someone saw Android running Opera. Opera is a closed-source browser, so the Opera folks would have to modify it themselves to run on Android. Such a modification would be a lot of work. Android already comes with a browser that’s based on the Webkit rendering engine (the same that powers OS X’s Safari web browser).

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