Thread: N900 vs Galaxy S2 (Super Biased Review)
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Hurrian is offline Hurrian
2012-10-29 , 10:35
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Originally Posted by dr_frost_dk View Post
It also amazes me how much of a dump google took on linux with android, even if you do EVERYTHING (root, kernels etc) you will never get no where near where maemo/meego, and lets not forget that we even have to "suffer" with the closed bits in maemo.
The biggest blight in Android (among others) would be Bionic libc. There is no dynamic linker, which pretty much forces you to use a chrooted system if you want to be able to use a proper GNU userland. Unless you're a masochist and statically link all your utilities.

Oh, and did I mention that the rootfs is a ramdisk (holy crap, why? Not even iOS does this.), and the actual system root is in /system, user stuff in /data. It's crazy - as if I were in Windows again with a nonunified root filesystem.
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