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    News - Android ICS runs natively on your Windows PC thanks to SocketeQ

    Good news for Windows 8 touchscreen users?
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    Re: News - Android ICS runs natively on your Windows PC thanks to SocketeQ

    This is cool, although I don't know how useful. Still, with things like this, Debian/kFreeBSD and ArchBSD, it shows how the OS and the kernel aren't as tightly coupled as they used to be.
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    Re: News - Android ICS runs natively on your Windows PC thanks to SocketeQ

    I guess we shouldn't be that surprised by this. As I understand it, Android is sat on top of a JVM(Dalvik I think) which is running on the Linux kernel. Since you have that Java layer it probably makes it easier to move to another kernel.

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    Re: News - Android ICS runs natively on your Windows PC thanks to SocketeQ

    This is pretty cool - and I would have thought that something that would interest Google.
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    Re: News - Android ICS runs natively on your Windows PC thanks to SocketeQ

    Now if I could emulate Android on my Linux PC I could see that opening up a lot of opportunities. Or will somebody tell me 'you can already do that?!'

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    Re: News - Android ICS runs natively on your Windows PC thanks to SocketeQ

    Well you can emulate an ARM device (whole phone) running Android, but it's not quite the same as what we're looking at here.
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    Re: News - Android ICS runs natively on your Windows PC thanks to SocketeQ

    I think that Android is a nice MobileOS, but I don't think it will be able to be all too well as a computer OS.

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    Re: News - Android ICS runs natively on your Windows PC thanks to SocketeQ

    I could play all those wonderful time wasting games on my PC, instead of doing work with this. Not sure it has much use beyond that really, but it's still cool.

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