<font face="georgia,serif"><font size="4"><br>Good morning<br><br>Further to my last response, maybe someone could give a <u>brief</u> talk on differing CPU architectures and how Linux uses differing repositories to give the same user experience across the "board". The most common CPU architectures are:<br>
<br>IBM Power aka PPC <br>ARM <br>X86-32<br>X86-64<br><br><br>Martin<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Martin Webb</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vobbelyvebb@gmail.com">vobbelyvebb@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: 14 September 2012 22:28<br>Subject: Fwd: [Rustington] Linux v. Android<br>To: RustingtonLUG <<a href="mailto:rustington@mailman.lug.org.uk">rustington@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br><br><br><font size="4"><font face="georgia,serif">Hi<br>
<br>First and foremost Android <u><i><b>IS</b></i></u> Linux Kernel based and was written for embedded system by a company called Android inc.<br><br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)</a><br>
<br>When Google bought Android inc (Google sponsored company) they tweaked the Linux Kernel for their own commercial purposes which is against the spirit of the Linux Community. This year they have started to give back to the Linux Community and will bring the Android Linux Kernel in line with the pure Linux Kernel:<br>
<br>So in essence I do consider that Android should be included in a LUG<br><br><br><i>Maybe we also should consider BSD Unix Distro's, such as the FreeBSD, Playstation CellOS and Apple OS X<br><br>Also Linux has been ported successfully to both Power PC and ARM, so where does one draw the line ??????????<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br><br></font></span></i><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u>Martin</u><i><br></i></font></span></font></font><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jack Cogman</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jack.cogman@btinternet.com" target="_blank">jack.cogman@btinternet.com</a>></span><br>
Date: 14 September 2012 21:54<br>Subject: [Rustington] Linux v. Android<br>To: rustington <<a href="mailto:rustington@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank">rustington@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>><br><br><br>Way back in this thread, someone explained what the principle difference is between Linux and Android, but I cannot for the life of me find it. Please could you repeat the explanation?<br>
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I am assuming that Android is very similar to Linux and have no problem with it being included in the LUG.<br>
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Jack<br>
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