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rowanG077 on Dec 23, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nix on the Steam Deck

So what's your point? When people say linux. You take it to mean GNU/Linux. And that honestly comes out of nowhere. At my work we use a ton of embedded devices that don't use GNU but instead use things like busybox. Everyone refers to them as Linux systems.

Android is Linux system in every single way. It's not however a GNU/Linux system. But the comment you originally replied didn't claim that.

pjmlp on Dec 23, 2022 [–]

Nope it is a Java based OS that uses the Linux kernel.

Ygg2 on Dec 23, 2022 | [–]

I'd go further. Android is pile of OSS/Proprietary mud that contains Linux. And runs Java.

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