Linux went mainstream ages ago. First with TiVo, now with Android. GNU/Linux + X...

ekianjo · on Dec 11, 2013

AGain. Android. Is. Not. Linux.

When we talk about Linux as an OS, we don't talk about Linux as the kernel. This is very tiring to read this everytime. The Android userland has nothing to do with any of the Linux distros out there.

It's not Linux who went mainstream, it's Android userland. Try running Android applications in "non-Android" Linux for good fun.

dragonwriter · on Dec 11, 2013

> When we talk about Linux as an OS

...we talk incorrectly. Linux isn't an OS. Linux is a kernel, around which many OS's (Ubuntu, Red Hat, ChromeOS, Android, for instance) are built.

justincormack · on Dec 11, 2013

So Shuttleworth was right it was a UX problem...