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Originally Posted by
Corona688
I worry that, like a lot of other hyped up google products, it'll become a google thing and not a UNIX thing. Android uses Linux, but can you get to Linux in a useful way? Not particularly.
You can get to Android in a useful way.
It is simply a different model. In Android each application at the user level is Java and each each application runs under its own user id.
In the Android shell on the phone, many Linux commands work fine.
I really don't understand the FUD about Android. After all, it was only a few months ago, most all mobile phones ran only on completely proprietary OS. Now, their are open OS for mobiles and it is really up to phone manufactures to go with what works for them.
Plus, considering all this is still in its infancy, it makes no sense to toss darts at it. All these new classes of OS are evolving. I just bought the best mobile phone I have ever had. There is no doubt that my next phone will be even more powerful, full featured, etc.
Actually, my phone is "a work of art".... I look forward to Chrome on a tablet, but so far, nothing to report. I will, more-than-likely, buy a Samsung Galaxy Tab running Android 2.2 on or around Oct 22nd.