Battery life, Android ecosystem is actually designed for a smaller form factor, cost. Wither or not these are good enough reasons are personal, but there are reasons.
Do you have any studies for that? From what I can tell phones and portable devices are all running ARM and even small laptops have been switching to ARM.
Yes, but also no. It does use the Linux kernel, but userspace is very different. The application ecosystem is very different. There can be huge differences between distros let alone a linux distro and android…
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
Battery life, Android ecosystem is actually designed for a smaller form factor, cost. Wither or not these are good enough reasons are personal, but there are reasons.
There’s really not much of an advantage in efficiency with ARM anymore, but there is a huge loss in peak performance.
Do you have any studies for that? From what I can tell phones and portable devices are all running ARM and even small laptops have been switching to ARM.
Android is Linux
Yes, but also no. It does use the Linux kernel, but userspace is very different. The application ecosystem is very different. There can be huge differences between distros let alone a linux distro and android…
sigh say the thing!
Anyone who says “Linux” means GNU/Linux and anyone who says Android means Android/Linux.
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
What makes GNU/Linux? glibc! What about glibc is not optimized for “smaller form factor, cost”?