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by chubot 2819 days ago
GNU+Linux is the only future of both GNU and Linux

Android is Linux without GNU, so it's not hard to imagine a different future (whether it's desirable is a different question). Android has no GNU in user space -- it's almost all Apache and BSD licensed.

And I'm pretty sure the build toolchain is Clang and not GCC.

Though I hope the values of GNU continue to be important in the software world. Linux and GNU have different viewpoints and I think we need them both.

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> And I'm pretty sure the build toolchain is Clang and not GCC.

Yes, Google took the effort of making Linux compilable with clang, then they deprecated gcc and with the latest NDK release (R18) gcc has gotten finally the boot from Android.