Android is Linux

Android is not GNU/Linux.

Article talks about GNU/Linux clearly. There is a point to the whole "I'd like to interject for a moment..." copypasta and Android's situation is the clearest illustration of it.

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throwaway0665 a day ago | parent | next [-]

The article talks about browsers that use Linux in the user agent. This includes Alpine Linux - which is not GNU/Linux. It also splits out Chrome OS which is pretty much GNU/Linux.

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blueflow a day ago | parent [-]

Alpine and GNU/Linux are Posix, while Android is not.

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TheDong a day ago | parent [-]

I don't think Posix is very relevant to what is or isn't linux.

macOS is more posix than NixOS, but everyone knows NixOS is a real linux distro, and macOS is not one.

	▲	blueflow a day ago \| parent [-]
		Me neither! I was suggesting to use "Posix" instead of "Linux" because it properly separates GNU/Linux or other Linuxes from Android. Posix is what Android isn't but what MacOS is. What people erroneously try to call "Linux" because they don't have a better word.

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palata a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Article talks about GNU/Linux clearly.

There are Linux distributions that don't use the GNU userland. Should we start being pedantic about that? And say Busybox/Linux or MyCustomThingy/Linux etc?

And actually, were you talking about GNU/Linux/Xorg, or GNU/Linux/Wayland? Can I also ask people to mention which libc they use? Alpine is OpenRC/Busybox/musl/Linux, which is not systemd/GNU/glibc/Linux.

So yeah... Desktop Linux is not worse a way to describe an OS than GNU/Linux.

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jraph a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> There is a point to the whole "I'd like to interject for a moment..." copypasta and Android's situation is the clearest illustration of it.

Well… :-)

With you in spirit, but to add to the mess, one could argue Alpine (and Postmarket OS) is a standard Linux distro, but non GNU.

"GNU/" cannot be used for clarifying things anymore.