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Linus Torvalds dropped the Android drivers from the main Linux kernel in late 2009. This doesn't mean that Android isn't, but it has become something of a Linux fork.

Linus Torvalds’ Take on Android. By Cynthia Harvey. August 20, 2011. During the recent LinuxCon convention in Vancouver, Linux creator Linus Torvalds took the stage to answer some questions about Android. During the past few years, there has been a lot of debate in the open source community over whether Android is or is not Linux. Android is quite a bit different than most Linux distributions, and the Android drivers haven’t been included in the Linux kernel since 2009.

Linus Trovalds is proud of what Android did to Linux that Desktop could not. With Android, Linux is the world's most popular Operating system, overall. He himself uses an Android Phone and believes that Android is a great fork of Linux. You really do need (Linux) to be pre-installed….

Linux creator casts doubt on claim that Android violates GPL. Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds has said new claims that Android violates the Linux license are "totally bogus." Intellectual ...

In June 7th. 2014 Business Insider published an interview with Linus Torvalds in which he said: "We are a Linux houseld, surprise surprise... ” and further on he mentioned: "We've got various Android phones and tablets, and a couple of Chromeb...

sfcrazy writes "The father of Linux, Linus Torvalds, once said, 'If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.' Microsoft yesterday released one of its cash cows, Microsoft Office, for Android. Since Microsoft has a very vague idea of what users want and is suffering from lock-in, the app is just an Android front end of Office 365 and is accessible only by the paid users.

Linus Torvalds will pull Paragon Software's NTFS driver into the 5.15 kernel source – but he complained about the use of a GitHub merge in the submission, saying that GitHub "creates absolutely useless garbage merges."