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Originally Posted by jggimi
As an Android user -- including having had about 5 years of that as a Cyanogenmod user and occasional ad hoc Cyanogenmod (and other Android) platform integrator -- I don't consider any of the various Android implementations to be "Linux distributions" as that term is understood.
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This is where Stalman's "GNU/Linux" term is actually useful. Most Linux distro's as we know as GNU + Linux (+ a whole lot of other stuff, too), but Android is no such thing. It's Linux + Dalvik + some other Google stuff.
And someone might (for example) also make a "BSD/Linux" system, where you have the Linux kernel with maybe FreeBSD base libraries + utilities.