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Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS by flukus on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @01:24AM (#13650137)
> This was also before the Android kernel heavily diverged from mainline Linux, and before "google play services" grew from a tiny app to a framework that powers half the OS features.

How diverged is it? Would the ever be merged back together?

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Re:Google’s not-so-secret new OS by throwawaydbfif on Wednesday February 15, 2017 @03:07AM (#13650491)
Last I checked some devices were running mainline kernels many years old, like 2011, with zero code back to mainline. One of the other posters mentioned rampant hacks to the kernel to get things to work in stupid ways which I've heard a lot of as well.

Android is missing a ton of new Linux features on many devices and the kernel is getting increasingly unusable by ARM devices in vanilla form because of these badly done third party modifications

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