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minus-squarenodsocket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up33arrow-down4·1 year ago“Android is already a Linux phone” They hated Jesus because he told them the truth.
minus-squareI_like_turtles3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down2·1 year agoBut it isn’t GNU/Linux https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html
minus-squarenonfuinoncuro@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up25·1 year ago… or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux
minus-squareVash63@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·1 year agoYes, but it is Linux. OP doesn’t mention GNU.
minus-squareCorroded@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down4·edit-21 year agoThat’s like saying you run FreeBSD because you have a PlayStation 5 though. It’s so far removed people associate as something different entirely.
minus-squarelemmeee@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoIt uses an ancient Linux kernel with millions of lines of code changed from the original.
minus-squareTotalSonic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·1 year agoAndroid devices run deprecated Linux kernels that have a bunch of proprietary binary blobs plopped onto them, so technically “Linux”, but not an easily updateable mainline kernel like most people are referring to when talking about “Linux.”
minus-squarenodsocket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoOK then call it what it is. You want a FOSS Linux phone.
minus-squarenodsocket@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoUh you know that Debian isn’t just Linux either right? It’s based on Linux. The same way that Android is.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year agoNot in the way they’re talking.
“Android is already a Linux phone” They hated Jesus because he told them the truth.
But it isn’t GNU/Linux https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.html
… or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux
Yes, but it is Linux. OP doesn’t mention GNU.
That’s like saying you run FreeBSD because you have a PlayStation 5 though.
It’s so far removed people associate as something different entirely.
It uses an ancient Linux kernel with millions of lines of code changed from the original.
Android devices run deprecated Linux kernels that have a bunch of proprietary binary blobs plopped onto them, so technically “Linux”, but not an easily updateable mainline kernel like most people are referring to when talking about “Linux.”
OK then call it what it is. You want a FOSS Linux phone.
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Uh you know that Debian isn’t just Linux either right? It’s based on Linux. The same way that Android is.
Not in the way they’re talking.