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That's a ridiculous comparison, the Android kernel patchset is tiny https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common-patches/ https://android.googlesource.com/ker
by rosnd 4y ago
That's a ridiculous comparison, the Android kernel patchset is tiny https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common-patches/ https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/common-patches/
It consists of "massive" changes such as:
> Enable writable clock debugfs files which are required for debugging and testing
and
> Allow drivers to register hooks when IPIs are sent and handled. The statistics of these IPIs are helpful in predicting CPU idle states
I suppose any distro backporting fixes is also not Linux? RHEL definitely can't be Linux if Android isn't.
- anonymous_sorry 4y agoThis disagreement is purely about semantics. In case its not clear, Linux the operating system typically means the Linux kernel plus a set of unix-inspired GPL-licenced userspace tools. Some (still) call this GNU/Linux, although that is a bit of a mouthful. Android has a completely different userspace to "Linux". The kernel is not the issue.
- rosnd 4y agoWell that's silly, the userspace you are talking about is strictly useless on phones. Every single attempt at building a reasonable mobile userspace for GNU/Linux has been a complete failure. What would that even look like? Almost all graphical GNU/Linux tools depend on X11, which is completely unsuited for phones. But if you want, you can totally install all the GNU userspace tools on Android. Nothing is stopping you from doing that.
- anonymous_sorry 4y agoNevertheless, there is something people call "Linux" that is a full OS (rather than just a kernel). Android differs substantially from that. Just semantics.
- rosnd 4y agoYes, but that is fundamentally incompatible with phones! It's an oxymoron, like a Windows 2000 phone. Marricks's comment simply does not make any sense if we're to use that definition of "Linux".
- anonymous_sorry 4y agoMarrick's comment makes even less sense using a definition of Linux that includes Android, since they lists three different options: iOS, Android and Linux. "No one is going to spend billions of dollars to get you to buy Linux.", Marrick said. Perhaps they were including the resources required to make something that is recognisably Linux that is compatible with phones, and polished enough to be appealing to the average consumer?
- rosnd 4y ago>Marrick's comment makes even less sense using a definition of Linux that includes Android, since they lists three different options: iOS, Android and Linux. They could just have not known this, it's not obvious if you've never tried to open a terminal on an Android phone. But how is Android not recognisably Linux? You can natively run all the Linux stuff you'd like on Android.
- fsflover 4y agoThis is false. Sent from my Pinephone with Mobian.