"Jonathan N. Little"
Sun, 05 Jan 2020 15:32:59 GMT in
alt.computer.workshop, wrote:

nospam wrote:
In article , Diesel
wrote:

from google i/o a while back:
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/android-..._not_linux.png



No mater how often you say it don't make it true. Even in the
age of "alternate facts". The Linux kernel is the kernel. My
servers don't have a windows manager but they are still Linux,
glibc is not the kernel but GNU C library, and the utilities
are part of the shell not the kernel. It modular, whatever you
wrap around the kernel doesn't nullify that it is Linux.

i'm not the one saying it.

*google* states that android is not linux.

No, you misunderstood them.

there's nothing to misunderstand. it's very clear.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2009...uction-to-goog
le- andro id-for-developers/
Although Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, the
platform has very little in common with the conventional
desktop Linux stack. In fact, during a presentation at the
Google IO conference, Google engineer Patrick Brady stated
unambiguously that Android is not Linux.

They admit it's Linux. First sentence.

first sentence says it's built *on* *top* *of*, not is.

Okay. Linux is the kernel. What you make of it to use for servers,
desktops, routers, toasters, or your phone requires additional
components, shells, tool kits, etc. to provide the "interface"
with us, the humans. In other words *on* *top* *of*, i.e.
addition to, not *in place* of.

The reason Android apps don't run on GNU/Linux distributions is
not because of the kernel but the *stuff* in between the
application layer and the kernel. the stuff *on* *top* *of* the
kernel. Not like the almighty Mac of Independence Day that can
instantly interface with an extra-terrestrial OS to hack it. Only
in the movies not in reality.

I found it quite amazing that a superior alien species computer
system is going to have a way for a 20th century human mac (or
otherwise) based computer some way to interface with it, let alone
accept any 'code' from it that's suitable to run on it which would
cause them problems in some way shape or form. That reaked of, oh
****, we've spent so much time ****ing off, how do we bring the story
to a close?




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