Hi, Juan!
The "zygote" is simply a preforked process that the system keeps around that
makes new application startup faster.
It sits idle in a neutral state (that is, "unfertilized" by a specific
application) until it's needed, at which point the system instructs it to
exec() the appropriate application. A new zygote process is then started up
in the background to replace the old, waiting for the next process to start.
Andy Rubin had nothing to do with the naming of it. :)
- Dan
2008/2/27 jtaylor <juan.anthony.tay...@gmail.com>:
> Zygote is in the innards of Android because Android is the "beginning"
> of Andy Rubin's vision of Robotic Technology?
> "A zygote (from Greek zugōtos 'joined', from zugoun 'to join') is a
> cell that is the result of fertilization."
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygote
> I don't see what else it could mean. If so, then it must be that
> Robots stand at the center of technological achievement if even cell
> phones bow to it. Now, that's something to think about.
> - Juan
