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Do any of you daily drive a mobile Linux distro on your cell phone? Is that viable / will it ever be?

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The only thing about Linux IS that its a kernel. Its not like BSD where all the tools get developed together and released in the same edition, Linux is a kernel, full stop. Anything built on top of the Linux kernel is a Linux distro.

Can you name something other than the kernel that would be considered an essential element of a Linux distro and not available on android or BSD?

Its always been GNU+Linux, even stallman acknowledged its a separate thing and distros without GNU or glibc do exist on desktop too.

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