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Re:The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desk... by jarin on Saturday June 18, 2011 @10:33AM (#2668700)
Android isn't successful because of Linux, it's successful in spite of Linux. Google chose Linux as a base on which to build what is essentially a new operating system (much like Apple chose BSD to build iOS on).

This is what a cellphone looks like when it's developed entirely by the open source community: http://www.openmoko.com/

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Re:The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desk... by aristidb on Saturday June 18, 2011 @02:12PM (#2669153)
Android certainly is successful _because_ of Linux (the kernel), because that let Google concentrate on the upper layers, being able to use a mostly finished kernel.
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Re:The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desk... by regularfry on Sunday June 19, 2011 @12:36PM (#2671144)
In a discussion of Linux on the desktop, I don't think people are concentrating on the kernel.
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