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The single most widely used distro of Linux, Android, does not use XFree86/Xorg. Indeed it uses almost nothing from GNU or freedesktop.org
by kllrnohj 12y ago
The single most widely used distro of Linux, Android, does not use XFree86/Xorg. Indeed it uses almost nothing from GNU or freedesktop.org
- cwyers 12y agoAndroid using the Linux kernel doesn't make it a Linux distro any more than Linux using GNU code in its userland makes Linux the GNU operating system. (Or put another way, nobody thinks that iOS is "the most widely used BSD.")
- feedjoelpie 12y ago>Android using the Linux kernel doesn't make it a Linux distro any more than... Um, actually that's exactly what makes it a Linux distro. That's the one defining feature of a Linux distro.
- kllrnohj 12y agoWell, iOS uses the XNU kernel which has Mach as its basis, not BSD. It uses a lot of parts of the FreeBSD kernel, though, but it's definitely not tracking upstream FreeBSD the same way that Android is.