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Drawing the Line Between Android and Linux

Posted by timothy on from the one-of-these-not-like-the-other dept.

jfruhlinger writes "The relationship between Linux and Android is on a technical level not hard to grasp — there's a shared kernel, but the application and interface layers are quite different. But, as Brian Proffitt points out, there are differences of philosophy and of community — which hasn't stopped Adobe from touting its Android dev tools as proof of its devotion to Linux."

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  1. Whoa! Hold on a moment. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "The relationship between Linux and Android is on a technical level not hard to grasp — there's a shared kernel...

    Most Linux Distros -> GNU/Linux.

    Linux is the kernel. Shared kernel means it's Linux.

    Period. end of story.

    , but the application and interface layers are quite different.

    That could be said for any Linux distro.

    Android is a Linux distro.

  2. Re:Android and Linux by royallthefourth · · Score: 3, Informative

    No problem! The Android SDK is in the repository for every major distro. Just push out the ROM, and reboot into recovery and flash it.