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Which is why I have precisely written GNU/Linux.

Android is a Java based OS, which happens to use Linux as kernel, Google can very easily change it to something else.

Only these set of C and C++ libraries are available to native applications on Android, which happen to be compiled to a .so anyway, to be loaded inside ART/Dalvik.

https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html

Trying to link into any other GNU/Linux library that happens to be on the devices, but isn't part of that list, will trigger an app termination, starting with Android 7.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-...

Also, many POSIX APIs have been removed from the kernel and require extra wrapper libraries, if they can be emulated at all.

https://roxanageambasu.github.io/publications/eurosys2016pos...

https://thesai.org/Downloads/Volume4No7/Paper_15-POSIX.1_con...

It has the Linux kernel you just bring the GNU or whatever you need. But Google now supports containers on ChromeOS so if access you can just run in a container and the use Android X Windows server on same box.

If Google would gives this away have my perfect development solution. I can play my Android games on my 2 in 1 and then use full Linux when in laptop mode. But I can also debug my containers on my laptop as native.

But when needed I have sold browser and other core things can never be touched. Basically give me a iPad and a Chromebook and a full Linux development machine. Well no kernel dev on Linux but most things, native, shared read, etc.

But I want an extra SSD that is separate from the kernel SSD. I think this can be done and even keep read share from boot dev and something running as a container.

Correct, Android is not GNU/Linux, I responded too fast. As the parent comment spoke about DirectX support, I should have phrased it 'Android is also in the camp of "Doesn't support DirectX" and counts for a large number of devices.'

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