[zanny]

Except that is exactly the terminology fudging that makes the conversation opaque. Android uses a forked Linux kernel, and uses none of the GNU toolchain that appears on Linux distributions. Android is based on Linux, but not GNU/Linux, and if you use just Linux as an interchangeable term for both kernel and OS including user-space, you could have gotten away with that a decade ago, but today there are enough divergent systems using Linux and not the GNU system that the distinction is required to make sense.

[inlineint]

Android patches had been merged into upstream a few years ago [1], so its kernel is actually Linux now, not a fork.

[1] https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.3#head-b733d694037e0b34ad4...