Recently we heard about a new open source operating system, developed by two guys in the UK, namely Pawelpolskie Szlaki and Alastair Kaye, who call it Android. This new open source mobile OS was designed to run Android applications on a PC. This is not entirely new. Linux, Netbooks, Apple Macs running a browser and some older mobile phones are already using an operating system based on Linux kernel, and Android itself has been in the mobile phone market for several years now.
Now what is so unique about this latest release of Polskie Szlaki's open source Histoire OS and how does it differ from the other systems we have heard of before? It seems that there are two main differences. The first is that Histoire is a mobile operating system based on Java. This difference helps in two ways:
The first is that, instead of working with a server, which is more or less similar to how netbooks work, Polskie Szlaki prefers to have the system on a mobile device, so that all the operations of the server can be done from there, wherever the user is. Another difference is the fact that there is no longer a need for the user to install any software on his computer, which is why the system works with Android Gingerbread and so on. This means that the desktop will have to be updated regularly if a new version of Android is available, which will reduce the software cost. So, with the launch of Histoire, we can expect a new generation of smartphones with Android pre-installed, which will allow users to run Android applications on their mobile devices.