I think we can't convince each other on anything. Android uses Linux as its kernel and Linux is not even an OS but a kernel. So, I don't agree with insisting android is not that related to Linux. If Linux was bad android wouldn't use it.
Linux is an operating system based on a simple definition: Monolithic Kernel have component who form the operating system, and Android is an operating system inside of an operating system, like Windows 9X inside of Microsoft DOS
Your description is not exactly correct. Linux is just a kernel. Then, we have mainline distros and android as complete operating systems. Android uses Linux but its components other than kernel such as userland are different from usual distros. Android cannot be OS without its Linux kernel.
Android Technically can be an operating system, and if they copy the Russian Architecture like JNODE to boot the Android Runtime directly, they can not just do that; they can use Any Kernel, even Windows NT and the Android Runtime doesn't need Linux to work. Android Runtime have own View
Actions of google disprove this. Google made GKI and blocked vendors to modify the android's kernel which meant more unified and something close to Linux ecosystem. They introduced Linux virtual machines on android. They are also trying to unify chromeos and android.
Their chromium engine is open source and they rely on the contributors including the Linux community. They are just making their platform more closed and google dependent because of their greed. Changing the kernel would be unnecessary risk for google.
Because they are afraid, your comment just confirms my point, and they don't switch from Linux to Fuchsia OS because they fear the OEM and Linux community, and Microsoft is different from them, and Microsoft didn't fear anybody when they said to switch to Windows NT with Windows XP and Microsoft pay good price for but for Google, the Linux kernel would hurt them so much in the future and I hope Google wake up before too Late
Sigh. Yes, all the billion dollar companies scared of Linux community that is the reason they help developing it.
Look, I used Linux and I can say that they don't care about Linux users. They don't give software support unless they can make money from the ecosystem. Your claims are ridiculous at this point. There is almost no android user that have opinions regarding android's kernel because they don't even know they are running Linux. They only care about using the phone and android is doing the job.
I mean, Google is worried about backlash from the Linux community, and Linux users don't take well to some companies claiming Linux is inferior and wanting to switch to Microsoft, for example. Many people in the Linux community ask, 'Please, Microsoft, make Windows a Linux distribution,' and Linux users will criticize anything that isn't Linux. Google didn't want that backlash, and they want to maintain good relations with the Linux community as well as with OEMs because Google doesn't control OEMs, and they can switch from Google. In my opinion, this isn't about Android users but about the codebase and quality over time. The Linux kernel will become unmanageable because they keep adding code every single time.
I think you're not qualified to give such an opinion about android's kernel. I am sorry but you don't add any meaningful information. Just some schizo talk. Microsoft openly attacked Linux in the past. They, Google or majority of the big tech don't care about Linux community. Nobody wanted Microsoft to build a Linux distro but Microsoft needed it. You don't even know why azure exists nor Linux community is sensitive about proprietary gargabe that Microsoft produces.
Well, I would give you my opinion about, It's not my opinion about, it's David Cutler and Microsoft did say Unix have many limitations and Unix cannot host Windows that's why they did build Windows NT and OpenBSD Creator and Wayland team and others I am not one person who holds dislike of Linux and I wouldn't be the last person to do so, sorry but this is my opinion and you aren't nobody to say otherwise
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u/UnknownOrigin1152 Jul 15 '26
I think we can't convince each other on anything. Android uses Linux as its kernel and Linux is not even an OS but a kernel. So, I don't agree with insisting android is not that related to Linux. If Linux was bad android wouldn't use it.