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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 children)

But Android is a Linux... Not GNU/Linux, but neither is Alpine.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    And OSX is a BSD but nobody i ntheir right mind would consider it a BSD distro.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    OSX is UNIX, built on BSD foundations but not BSD.

    Android on the other hand IS Linux, and is distributed. So I say, it's a Linux distribution.

    All other things that people mention as qualifying for a Linux distro are either GNU libs (which alpine doesn't have) or POSIX/UNIX way of doing things, which would disqualify Android from being POSIX compliant but not from being a Linux distro.

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