On Thu, Jan 22, 2026, 05:09 Gerhard Schauer via lpi-examdev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> * Alessandro Selli via lpi-examdev ([email protected]) wrote:
> >
> > 7) I cannot make up my mind concerning the inclusion of a mention of
> Android
> > and derivates/replacements: they are not a Linux OS, they are separate
> OSes
> > built on a custom Linux kernel, I would like we do not contribute in
> > amplifying the confusion between the two. On the other hand, smartphones
> are
> > more widely used than laptops or desktops, including them might make
> Linux
> > Essentials more popular. But then again, Android and the like, they are
> > structured and used in a very different way compared with a regular Linux
> > distribution, their use on the command line is awkward and very rare,
> only
> > geeks do it.
> >
>
> Please keep Android in essentials.. , I think not all Linux Beginners know
> about Android is based on the Linux Kernel and is not "a one company closed
> stuff" with all the possibilities that are availible through that: building
> custom ROM, run it with separate ( open source ) app store, etc..etc.. I
> think with Android , a small part of the discussed "digital autonomy" ( at
> least as an option.. ) has made it to the most used consumer it product
> (smartphone) in ower days.
>

I'm fine with inclusion of Android as long as we make people aware is it
not a GNU system and a packaged Linux distribution.

If apk and other aspects of embedded awareness want to be covered, I'm not
against that, but Essentials is a very limited set of depth and broadness
in objectives overall.

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Sent from my phone, apologies for any brevity as well as autocorrect
Bryan J Smith - http://linkedin.com/in/bjsmith
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