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Operating Systems Linux Android Android is Linux (and Java) Post 302457224 by Neo on Monday 27th of September 2010 02:45:15 PM

09-27-2010

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Android is Linux (and Java)

In case you did not know, Android 2.1, �clair, runs on the 2.6.29 Linux kernel. However, the user space it is built atop Dalvik, a Google-designed custom JVM (Java virtual machine).

This is pretty interesting, when you think about it. The core of Android is the linux kernel, and the standard unix/linux shell exists and is easily accessible; however, user applications are Java-based.

I have read some news reports with some strong opinions about "pure Linux" or "pure Java" and issues with Android.

At The UNIX and Linux Forums, it has always been both our mission and policy to steer clear of any "religious wars" between the various flavors of unix and linux. We don't even permit windows-bashing here!

All operating systems are equally of interest here, so if you are like me and interested in Unix and Linux, you are also interested in Android, because Android is Linux.

Making all this more interesting, of course, are all the predictions that Android will be the dominate mobile phone OS in a few years. This means there will be millions of more Linux users on the planet!

Yea!

Neo

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MOBILE-ATLAS-CREAT(1)					  mobile-atlas-creator User Manu				     MOBILE-ATLAS-CREAT(1)

NAME

       mobile-atlas-creator - program to create atlas archive for mobile devices

SYNOPSIS

       mobile-atlas-creator

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the mobile-atlas-creator command.

       This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       mobile-atlas-creator (formerly known as TrekBuddy Atlas Creator) is an open source (GPL) program which creates offline atlases for GPS
       handhelds and cell phone applications like TrekBuddy, AndNav and other Android and WindowsCE based applications. For the full list of
       supported applications please see the features section. Additionally individual maps can be exported as one large PNG image with
       calibration MAP file for OziExplorer. As source for an offline atlas Mobile Atlas Creator can use a large number of different online maps
       such as OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Microsoft/Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps and many more online map providers.

OPTIONS

       The program does not have any options.

AUTHOR

       Ying-Chun Liu <paulliu@debian.org>
	   Wrote this manpage for the Debian system.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2010 Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu)

       This manual page was written for the Debian system (and may be used by others).

       Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or (at
       your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

       On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

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