MacOS and iOS are already close relatives to Linux and Android is Linux. Outside of Microsoft, most of the tech industry and the vast majority of the internet back end runs on Linux. The only place that Linux is not absolutely dominant is the consumer and corporate desktop.
Android USES Linux (The Colonel [Sanders]) - apart from that, it is UTTER TRASH.
What are you? 12?
Android is linux based, are you saying that's not true or are you having difficulty with reading comprehension?
I'm not a fan of Android and don't use it myself but it is the most widely used consumer operating system by a wide margin. Currently on about 2.5 Billion devices it dwarfs all other consumer operating systems combined.
How is my age, in any way related to the fact that you said "Android is Linux", and then changed that to "Linux-based"? It's not even Linux-based, it's JAVA-based and just happens to USE Linux kernel, somehow - the marketing muppets use the "It runs on Linux" schtick to make it appear "cool" to nerds. They also push (as do many other tireseome bores) the whole "Open Source" bollocks - who CARES, so long as the phone works.
We didn't have all this obsessive, policital crap back when Nokia had the 3210/3310 etc - you bought a phone, got used to it and loved it, and weren't online ranting or raving about it like a complete sad sack loser.
Wow... You seem to get quite angry... Maybe step outside & smell the roses, and hear the birds!
I'm sure that I, yourself, & others have made 'typos', or accidentally mis-phrased something, but take
a 'chill-pill' when you come back in from outside. People will, on a forum like this, talk about various tech
aspects of equip out of interest, whether they 'Need' to know it or not, as in the Android/Linux/Phone stuff.
'Phrasing' aside, Android SmartPhones DO utilize a Linux Kernel, it does not supply a typical Front-End to
it, as per the typical various Linux distribution 'Builds' like Ubuntu etc. When you boot an Android device, the
Linux kernel loads just like it would on a Linux distribution. However, much of the other software is different.
The 'Android' variation to the front end is specifically designed to deal with the Touch Screens etc.
You mentioned Java.... Rather than running typical Linux applications, Android uses the Dalvik Virtual Machine
to essentially run applications written in Java. These applications are targeted at Android devices and the
application programming interfaces (APIs) Android provides rather than being targeted at Linux in general.
I know all this now, as I researched it, just out of interest. Not because our lives depend on it.
P.S. Out of interest, I found ref to an interesting App for Android phones!! It works without the phone being
'Rooted', but evidently has more power when it is. It's called Terminal Emulator for Android....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jackpal.androidterm
It's a new version, to Access your Android's built-in Linux command line shell. Unleash your inner geek!
Have a happy new year...
These are far from revelations. Any newcomer to Linux, using Android phones would have (and has been) using these precise methods and apps for many, many years. It's fine that you're recommending them, but to talk aloof, assuming no one else has this "inside knowledge" is quite alarming. Let's be frank - it's not like you're the sole user of t'internet - this stuff is extremely basic knowledge which is years old.
Yes you're right, we all need to step outside and get a break (I live in blissful English countryside, so it's on my doorstep, and I do it daily); you're absolutely right, and it's easy to lose perspective.
You didn't need to ladle on the scoops of "look at how much knowledge I possess" - the stuff you reference is trivial in the IT world, but I thank you nevertheless..
Dear 'eti'... I just want to clarify a few things!
Firstly, I'm truly glad you live in the location you do, and get outside daily to enjoy it. We all need that !
However, to say I was "
talking aloof", with "
alarming inside knowledge", and I'm just ladling on scoops of
"
look at how much knowledge I possess"... is as far from what/who I am/saying as you can get, my friend.
I
never postulate on this blog that I am highly knowledgeable in anything. In fact, quite the opposite!
(Mainly due to my age, loss of contemporary technical awareness, & vastly worsening medical conditions).
For example, if you look at the last line of my 2nd to last main paragraph, you will see I said...
"
I know all this now, as I researched it, just out of interest. Not because our lives depend on it."
The POINT was, that I only just found that out, (before posting that), because I looked it up, because I was
interested, after you mentioned 'Java'. Although my life didn't depend on it, in the way you accuse people.
And B.T.W... I'm not Pro/Anti anything here. What I previously knew about 'Linux', I could have fitted on the
back of a Matchbox!! However, other members here have enlightened/educated me a lot! (I'm trying).
My original post 'Topic' was initially just tongue-in-cheek reporting of the 'consoles' making a supercomputer.
Please continue to traverse outside daily, and count your blessings for being alive, while you can.