> Seriously? If I build my Gentoo differently it won't be Linux, because I used a different userland?
You're misunderstanding. It's not criticism, but a statement of facts that the only thing Android has in common with most desktop Linux-distros is the kernel. Apart from that they share literally nothing.
Tweaking your Gentoo installation still makes is a Gentoo-installation, and thus a normal GNU/Linux environment.
But if you change the init-system, remove all userspace tools, lock it down so users can't have root, ditch X for something else and only run apps designed for your non-X graphical environment, with each user-facing app running as their own Linux user-account...
Would you call that a "normal" Linux desktop? Probably not. And that's the point. Android isn't conventional Linux. (Which is probably why it's so successful, but that's flamebait for another discussion)
It is also sold off the shelf in big stores where Joe Averages congregate. Get a desktop distro preinstalled on hardware with all the drivers in place and working, and lets see how well it does over the long term (5+ years).
You're misunderstanding. It's not criticism, but a statement of facts that the only thing Android has in common with most desktop Linux-distros is the kernel. Apart from that they share literally nothing.
Tweaking your Gentoo installation still makes is a Gentoo-installation, and thus a normal GNU/Linux environment.
But if you change the init-system, remove all userspace tools, lock it down so users can't have root, ditch X for something else and only run apps designed for your non-X graphical environment, with each user-facing app running as their own Linux user-account...
Would you call that a "normal" Linux desktop? Probably not. And that's the point. Android isn't conventional Linux. (Which is probably why it's so successful, but that's flamebait for another discussion)