Elephant in the room

Posted May 3, 2012 12:59 UTC (Thu) by ewan (guest, #5533)
In reply to: Elephant in the room by epa
Parent article: The plumbing layer as the new kernel

The article mentioned Android thusly: "some distributors, such as Android, having replaced almost everything above the kernel". There's really not much else to say - it doesn't use the 'old' normal userspace, and it won't use the new one. It's chiefly interesting as an example of what it takes to go it completely alone.