The Android OS comes to the PC

Not just for ARM chips anymore!

Google's mobile phone operating system called Android has come to the PC in a LiveCD version.

A couple of blokes have recompiled the OS so it's capable of running on a common x86 platform. This is just in time to see what Android is really like, before Acer, Asus, MSI and others officially release their netbooks with the operating system preloaded on them.

The PC version has been ported from an Asustek EeePC 701 netbook running Android. As with every other try-before-you-buy LiveCD, you simply download the ISO file, burn it onto a CD or DVD, and then boot with the disc.

With a LiveCD, there's no need to install the OS, so you can test-drive the software without writing it to your system's hard disk. The LiveCD can also run under virtualisation such as VirtualBox or VMware or the other thing by Microsoft.
You can grab the Liveandroid version 0.2 from Google.

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2 Comments

smadge1 Jul 15, 2009 2:33 PM	"or the other thing by Microsoft" You mean VirtualPC right?
Hawtoldman Jul 15, 2009 8:11 PM	I'd assume so smadge, but because it's so inferior the author jokingly didn't say the name.

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