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Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS
(www.androidauthority.com)
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Android is a variant of Linux, just not GNU/Linux because of not using glibc.
With diffs sometimes around 5m lines of code (in case of qcom)
Nobody's denying that. Many embedded distributions targeted special hardware are like that.
Lol thank you so much for the laugh
But do you know what you're laughing at, though?
Yes. It’s funny to me when people pull the “ACK-shually what you’re referring to is not GNU…” blah blah blah
android just uses the kernel
Yes and the kernel's name is "Linux". No other software is named "Linux". Ask Linus Torvalds if you don't believe me.
there's more to an operating system that a program needs other than the kernel(?)
Yes, and the other parts have other names, like the toolkit GTK or the C standard library glibc and all those things make up a Linux distribution, like Fedora.