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jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 month agoExcept lots of IoT things, router, etc. Also Cromebooks and Steamdecks. And us GNU/Linux people. Android is Linux, just not GNU/Linux. Really isn’t just servers.
pathief@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t know too much about IoT but I wouldn’t linux runs the world in any of the other markets you mentioned.
I would say while technically Android uses a modified linux kernel, you can’t put it under the same umbrella.
Either way I don’t want to get too much into these technicalities. I was simply trying to say that Linux is king on servers, not really on the market where all this crazyness happened.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Android makes RMS’s GNU/Linux language make sense. It is a Linux, but not a GNU/Linux.
Google’s attempt to fork Linux failed and now is mainlined so they can maintain as small a set of patches as they can. Once binder was merged, there is no fork anymore.
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/…/android?h=v…
Android is basically a build config now.
TVs that aren’t Android are probably GNU/Linux. Smart white goods are often Linux. Linux even get used in cars. Some of it under Automotive Grade Linux, but not all. If some random thing has a user interface, find licenses and you can normally see what FOSS went in.
You can do so much with so little, at no cost of licencing or access. Why wouldn’t you?
You use things like Yocto and Buildroot to build a image that has nothing but what you need, how you need it.
HoornseBakfiets@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Alpine Linux tho 😈 /j
jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Not quite the same thing. I doubt, for example, they have a big bag of device trees for different ARM devices to build from.