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> get rid of the Linux/GNU heritage in Android What GNU heritage? Android has only ever used the Linux kernel to get a leg up on hardware support in the early
by newnewpdro 8y ago
> get rid of the Linux/GNU heritage in Android
What GNU heritage? Android has only ever used the Linux kernel to get a leg up on hardware support in the early days. AFAIK there has never been any GNU userspace of any sort in anything Android related, much to the chagrin of the Linux community.
- pjmlp 8y agoMany never read beyond the headlines. The NDK is constrained in what it can do, as per security concerns. There is termux as port of GNU on Android, but only applications that rely on plain ISO C, ISO C++ can be ported. Syscalls support is hit and miss per devices, as it isn't part of official NDKs APIs.