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juiceme is offline juiceme
2014-04-09 , 07:06
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Originally Posted by coderus View Post
@azkay maemo/meego/sailfish is pure FOSS linux based systems with own desktop environment and components only.
True.
All of these are "pure GNU/linux" that use glibc and unix-like windowing system, either X or Wayland.


Originally Posted by coderus View Post
Android and ios/osx are linux based.
True&False.
Android is linux derivative with it's own library framework, it uses bionic instead of glibc and surfaceflinger instead of x-like display environment, which makes it not so straightforward to port existing linux applications to it.
IOS/OSX on the other hand are not linux derivatives, instead they are based on BSD unix with lots of Apple-made middleware and fluff.
 

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