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minus-squarespacemanspiffy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·10 hours agoBecause Android is not Linux.
minus-squaremkwt@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoReally, we need to break out something like that “GNU+Linux” copypasta. Android is more like Android/Linux than GNU/Linux.
minus-squareVerdant Banana@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down2·9 hours agoyes, it is same as Edge is Chrome albeit modified and using Trident which is just a forked/modified Blink which in turn is a fork from WebKit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_engine The Android kernel is based on an upstream Linux Long Term Supported (LTS) kernel. At Google, LTS kernels are combined with Android-specific patches to form what are known as Android Common Kernels (ACKs). https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel
minus-squareBearOfaTime@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 hours agoBut the Android API isn’t Linux. Android runs on a Linux kernel, not the same as Linux. Wine isn’t Linux. Wine runs on a Linux kernel giving us a Windows API on Linux.
Because Android is not Linux.
Really, we need to break out something like that “GNU+Linux” copypasta.
Android is more like Android/Linux than GNU/Linux.
yes, it is
same as Edge is Chrome albeit modified and using Trident which is just a forked/modified Blink which in turn is a fork from WebKit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_engine
https://source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel
But the Android API isn’t Linux.
Android runs on a Linux kernel, not the same as Linux.
Wine isn’t Linux. Wine runs on a Linux kernel giving us a Windows API on Linux.
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