Android and Linux are growing back together

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Apr 26, 2010 9:19 PM EDT
Computerworld; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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Google's Android, the increasingly important embedded Linux, had one major problem: it had been moving slowly away from the Linux mainstream. Now, after the recent Linux Foundation Collaboration Conference, Android and Linux are coming back together. Not only is Google going to be hiring two new Android developers to work more closely with the Linux kernel development team, they're also working on re-merging its driver code with Linux. Indeed, the first series of driver patches that will bring Android and Linux back into alignment have already arrived.

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