Android/Linux kernel fight continues

[ Thanks to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols for this link. ]

"You could argue that Google's Android, so popular on smartphones now, is the most popular Linux of all right now. There's only one little problem with that: Android has continued to be apart from the Linux mainstream.

"People became aware of the Android and Linux split when Ryan Paul reported that "Google engineer Patrick Brady stated unambiguously that Android is not Linux."

"Brady over-stated the case. Android is Linux. To be exact, version, 2.2, Froyo, runs on top of the 2.6.32 Linux kernel. To quote from the Android developer page, Dalvik, Android's Java-based interface and user-space, uses the "Linux kernel for underlying functionality such as threading and low-level memory management." Let me make it simple for you, without Linux, there is no Android."

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