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by restalis 3824 days ago
"Android contains the only Linux component - the kernel"

Well, only the kernel IS actually Linux. A Linux-kernel based *nix OS in itself, which is usually wrongly assumed as Linux, is not in fact Linux (or not quite). In this regard Android is just like a lot of other Linux-kernel based distributions, no mater that it runs on an older/modified kernel.
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mojuba 3824 days ago
That's not entirely correct. Linux kernel is Linux kernel; what we call "Linux" usually also includes the GNU userland. And then there are "Linux flavours" that only differ in the way they screw up packaging and updates of the kernel and the userland.
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teddyh 3824 days ago
What you call “flavors”, most people call “distributions”. And you are wrong; “Linux” is the name of the kernel.
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