i said userspace, not user interface.
That's true but I feel like we're arguing over semantics here. I picked one part of the userspace as an example.
Android is not binary compatable with desktop linux (even desktop linux that has been ported to whatever hardware you happen to be running android on).
What does binary compatibility have to do with it? I don't mean that in a confrontational way and it's not a rhetorical question. Wouldn't Android, Jolicloud, Chrome OS and Meego all be distributions of linux just the same as Debian, Ubuntu or Suse?
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