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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Possibly because it is much more common to do things of that general nature on an Android... which in turn is probably because Android is not inherently aggressive towards attempts to do so...
Because Android is a general multipurpose platform, typically installed on general multipurpose devices.
I don't consider a Kindle to be not-a-general-purpose-os because it is unable to be used as one, I consider it so because it is dedicated to a specific task.
Android, being a general multipurpose device, then qualifies as a general multipurpose linux OS since it can and is used as such.
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Ok...so since people can (and do) install a shell prompt and use it on their Android phones, then we can say that all of the Android phones can be considered as running Linux, right? Let's step back a bit, and say that all Android (and MacOS, incidentally) systems are running Unix, since someone used to Unix would feel at home in a Linux shell prompt. So we've established that all non-Windows systems are running Unix, right? (Although, I'm not sure about iOS--can you install a shell prompt and use Unix/Linux commands on that once it's jailbroken?)
Shari