Linux PDA cell phones - Linux on Android compatible cell phones? ; jor Ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 13:25 +0700, rhizoma rio wrote:
> So, if linux is kernel, and android is modified kernel for embedded
> system purpose, can we say android is linux
> 
> > On Dec 13, 2010 3:41 AM, "MR ZenWiz" <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:55 PM, rhizoma rio <xrhizoma at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > it's confusing me? what ...
> > 
> > You are correct - Linux is the kernel.  Period.
> > 
> > A "distro" is a particular Linux-based distribution of a complete
> > system - kernel + standard system commands "required" to run Linux
> > on
> > a machine (mostly from GNU/FSF) + usually now one or more graphical
> > desktop manager (typically GNOME or KDE, but there are many others,
> > too) + whatever other options the distro happens to include (server
> > packages, development packages, and many, many, many more).
> > 
> > Distros include Ubuntu, Debian, Mandriva, Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora,
> > Mint, Slackware, SCO, Gentoo, Novell/SuSE and so on.  Each one has
> > its
> > own particular bent and/or flavor, so pick one you like and go with
> > it.

Please don't top post. It was confusing as merry hell trying to figure
out who wrote what from your reply. Please sin no more. Ric


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