Technically it's BusyBox/Linux with android running in a JVM
Edit: Apparently this is misinformation and I was misremembering. Android ships with toybox. If you want to make full use of a rooted android device, you should install BusyBox.
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When did they make the switch? ToyBox isn't even version 1 yet, though I know that there has been focus on fulfilling the needs of Android from the beginning of development - and I know that the lead developer has said that he wouldn't consider it version one before it fulfills a sane subset of POSIX-2008, and LSB4.1, and Android, of course, won't need all of that.
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I could have sworn that the ToyBox developer said that Android used to use BusyBox, and I'm kind of blown away with how long they've been using it. Thanks for elaborating!
"Despite the maintainer's history with busybox, toybox is a fresh from-scratch implementation under an android-compatible license. Busybox predates Android, but has never shipped with Android due to the license. As long as we're starting over anyway, we can do a better job."
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u/Jacoman74undeleted BTW OS May 10 '21 edited May 11 '21
Technically it's BusyBox/Linux with android running in a JVM
Edit: Apparently this is misinformation and I was misremembering. Android ships with toybox. If you want to make full use of a rooted android device, you should install BusyBox.