Small Phones are Dead and We Killed Them - eviltoast
  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Linux is a kernel. In that sense Android is Linux.

    However when people say Linux they usually mean the full OS with the GNU utilities and all the other things that make up a Linux distro.

    In that sense, Android is not Linux as pretty much everything other than the kernel is built specifically for android.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      And even the kernel itself is a fork of an ancient version with shitloads of changes to it, plus a bunch of proprietary blobs.