Android is just as much linux. Sure it has some additional patches. Saying it isn’t linux would be the same as saying linux with Plasma or Gnome is not linux because it isn’t on a server. The user interface is just different and they block root.
Android at the very least still uses the same Linux kernel, albeit modified. Apple‘s XNU kernel is an entirely different thing, being originally based on a modified BSD kernel, unlike Linux, which was written from scratch.
Linuxians tend to do that.
But when you point out Linux and Mac are based upon UNIX and thus by their logic are UNIX, they flip their shit.
Android is so heavily modified, it isn’t Linux anymore.
Android is just as much linux. Sure it has some additional patches. Saying it isn’t linux would be the same as saying linux with Plasma or Gnome is not linux because it isn’t on a server. The user interface is just different and they block root.
Android at the very least still uses the same Linux kernel, albeit modified. Apple‘s XNU kernel is an entirely different thing, being originally based on a modified BSD kernel, unlike Linux, which was written from scratch.