There have been so many times I’ve needed to reboot android devices in order to clear memory leaks, fault conditions, recover crashed daemons, etc. I really don’t know why your putting android on a plateau in terms of quality. Obviously they serve very different markets with different features and even restrictions, but still.the way in which the OS is built around a linux kernel is the same. Why do you think chromeos and android aren’t distros? They are to me in the same sence that ubuntu, suse, or redhat are.

Context clues often give a good idea of whether people are talking about the kernel or desktop environment. Stallman was fond of pointing out it should be called GNU/linux to emphasize that linux is just the kernel and not the whole OS, but his distinction didn’t catch on. For whatever reason, we started calling the desktop environment linux in causal conversation and that stuck. Used primarily by IT professionals, because Linux is horrible for mere mortals.Īs a as a kernel it is true that it has roughly half the market share on mobile. Linux is where it’s always been, floundering around 1-2% mark. Linux distros on the other hand (sans RHEL and SLES – both server oriented distributions, so they don’t really count) don’t care about binary compatibility, have minimal QA/QC, and have major issues and regressions all the time.

These two OS’es are tightly controlled by Google, sport real API/ABI long term compatibility and excellent QA/QC.

The vast majority of people out there think of Linux of a Linux distro, which neither ChromeOS, nor Android is. If you wanna count everything based on Linux, why not include Android and say that Linux has 50% market share? No? That obviously didn’t occur to you. Linux is a kernel, it’s not an Operating System, all by itself its 100% useless. Other publications do not count Chrome OS installations as part of the Linux share, but I think that’s nonsense – they’re both clearly Linux desktop operating systems, and should be added up.ĬhromeOS being Linux is complete and utter nonsense.

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