alt Hacker NewsPlease stop calling Android Linux. It's a marketing lie that continues to disappoint, including here. You're holding Linux back substantially by claiming Android is part of it. Just because it has Unix doesn't mean it's Linux as MacOS is also Unix.
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IsTom • yesterday at 8:30 PM
It's the punishment for all the times people laughed at calling regular Linux "GNU/Linux".
yjftsjthsd-h • yesterday at 9:20 PM
Android literally is a Linux distro, though. Like, sure it has a weird userspace and is user hostile, but that doesn't make it not a Linux distro.
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prophesi • yesterday at 7:55 PM
Unless it was in a previous iteration of the submission's title, I don't see Linux mentioned anywhere.
The kernel is a Linux kernel. The userspace is very different from a typical Linux distribution.