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[–] wer2@lemmy.zip 8 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] blujan@sopuli.xyz 2 points 40 minutes ago (1 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.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 1 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

I'm gonna be real here I don't care.

[–] blujan@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 minute ago

Understandable, have a good day!