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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Problem is, Linux is not GNU. A Linux distribution may contain elements from the GNU project, but then it'd be better to use the name GNU/Ubuntu or GNU/Fedora.

Android is most definitely Linux, and most definitely not GNU. Debian is almost wholly GNU (except, of course, for the Linux kernel, which is most definitely not GNU). A Fedora distribution will be somewhere in the middle, and any given Arch implementation could be near 100% GNU or near 0% GNU.

Ultimately, just saying a distribution is GNU/Linux is misleading, because you really don't know how much GNU is in there. (Whereas Linux either is or is not in there for certain.)
Thanks for your very informative response. Just one thing. The statement that Android is not GNU/Linux may not be correct. If you have an Android device open a terminal and type the following command which provides system information (if it doesn't work you need to have busybox installed)

uname -a

Mine says GNU\Linux. So while Android is GNU/Linux it is of the stripped down variety...
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