And you can (sometimes) install something like PostmarketOS which is closer to the kind of linux people think about when they hear “Linux”
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BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I guess I’m going to be that guy today. Android is Linux, and it’s installed on a lot of mobile devices already.
JetpackJackson@feddit.org 5 days ago
wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
PostmarketOS isn’t “closer”… It fully is GNU/Linux.
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
You are correct. His statement wasn’t about technology, it was about expectations.
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Android is maintaining a fork of Linux kernel that has since diverged.
Its like saying MAC is UNIX, technically yes but not really
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Its like saying MAC is UNIX, technically yes but not really
macOS is UNIX-based. Period. In fact, “[s]tarting with Leopard, macOS has been certified as compatible with the Single UNIX Specification version 3 (SUSv3).” Source
sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Exactly Android also is “Linux based” period.
That’s my point.
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Mac isn’t UNIX based, it is UNIX and comes with many of the UNIX tools a user would expect. Completely different situation.
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 5 days ago
so macOS is sus
ricdeh@lemmy.world 5 days ago
macOS is definitely Unix. In the literal sense that it is actually certified (unlike FreeBSD, for example), and it is very much Unix-y under the hood.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 5 days ago
As far as I can tell literally everything (except for windows) is UNIX, it isn’t exactly a high bar to pass, it’s like saying all drinks are water based which is technically true but I’m not going to give a kid a wine box when I run out of juice boxes.
zante@lemmy.wtf 5 days ago
Linux is synonymous with open source and freedom and to some extent privacy.
android is synonymous with Google
I’m only guessing, but when people ask about a Linux tablet or phone, they actually want the former, rather than the later, even though android is a Linux derivative, as you rightly said.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 days ago
FYI, Android is open source.
zante@lemmy.wtf 5 days ago
I don’t know if you are deliberately missing the point ?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I didn’t miss the point. Maybe you’re conflating a distribution with an operating system. But, since you brought it up:
My point is that — at least in my eyes — open source is not synonymous with one single project. Do with that what you will.
mkwt@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Another aspect to this is that Android is Linux, but it is not GNU / Linux. This is true both in the literal sense of not using GNU coreutils or glibc, and also in the broader sense.
What I mean by the “broader” sense:
To the application programmer Android Linux looks like a completely different ball game.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
You’ll see that’s not the question that was asked. And it’s okay not to give Stallman any more validation for his fame-grab.