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Android isn't Linux. Linux is just an implementation detail, which could be swapped for something else and the apps wouldn't notice.
by trasz 5y ago
Android isn't Linux. Linux is just an implementation detail, which could be swapped for something else and the apps wouldn't notice.
- rbanffy 5y agoThis is and has always been kind of the point of Unix-like OSs. Blackberry had a workable Android 2 runtime on top of QNX. You can (at least could) run a Debian on top of a FreeBSD kernel. I run a lot of Linux code on MacOS too.