Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux - eviltoast

Some examples:

  • Android
  • Alpine: Alpine Linux is built around musl libc and busybox
  • glaucus: A simple and lightweight Linux distribution based on musl libc and toybox
  • Chimera (alpha stage): Chimera uses a novel combination of core tools from FreeBSD, the LLVM toolchain, and the Musl C library
  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    I would argue that Android has very little to do with Linux. You don’t even have to go far into the quirks of the userland, the kernel is a heavily modified flavor of it to which the linux documentation simply does not apply, or not really accurately.

    With recent versions it might be better now, but holy guacamole it is very bad in those before that, basically it’s filled with nonstandard modifications (well, probably depends on what you call standard, though…)

    • drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      android works on upstream kernel fine. in fact, you can even run a linux chroot inside of a booted android perfectly fine. android, especially newer ones, really arent that far off normal linux at all anymore, hell Waydroid is literally running android inside of an LXC container with some patches to get proper integration with the host working