Spoken like a true hack that doesn’t know what is going on.

I don’t get it, why waste one’s time doing this? Isn’t Android essentially a flavor of Unix? Too many people keep forking off into new projects, and that isn’t always useful.

I have to agree that “By the time the kinks have been worked out, the hardware will be a couple of generations old”!

Give a quick read of this article:

“…is Android Linux? The folks at the Linux Foundation seem to think so
(and seem awfully happy about it), and I’m going to have to agree with
them. Now before you purists come to West Virginia to beat some sense
into me, I’m not saying that Android is unadulterated GNU Linux. Clearly
it’s not, there’s far too many differences and psudeo-open source
licensing at play to call it pure. But for all intents and purposes,
it’s close enough.

Android now runs on top of a standard Linux kernel,
and uses many of the same kernelspace utilities and code that my
desktop does. Essentially, that’s what Linux is — the heart of many
different systems. Google, and the Android partners like Samsung, HTC,
and CyanogenMod, then build things out to present the user with an
interface to interact with the kernel. The kernel does stuff, all our
taps and swipes and presses are telling it the stuff we want it to do.
Just like any of the popular Linux distributions that you can install on
your computer at home or work.

Android looks and acts a little different because it needs to look
and act a little different to be useful on a small touch screen device.
Of course, this is the simplified version of things, but if you’re the
type who understands how the kernelspace and userspace interact, you see
where I’m coming from. Too much nerd is often too much.

So the next time you grab your Android-powered phone or tablet, just
remember that you’re part of the long standing tradition that is Linux.
It’s a good place to be.

http://www.androidcentral.com/ask-ac-android-linux