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.
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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!
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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 Machineto 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.
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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.androidtermIt's a new version, to Access your
Android's built-in Linux command line shell. Unleash your inner geek!
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Have a happy new year...
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