This week at LWN: Toward a freer Android

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 19, 2009 9:30 PM CST
LWN.net; By Jonathan Corbet
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Linux-based mobile phone platforms are really just specialized distributions. Like other distributions, phone platforms will live or die based on how well they meet the needs of their users. The Android platform has a high profile at the moment as the result of the entry of more handsets into the market, but also as a result of Google's actions toward derived distributions. Android is clearly not meeting the needs of all its users currently, but changes are afoot which may improve the situation.

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