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The article talks about browsers that use Linux in the user agent. This includes Alpine Linux - which is not GNU/Linux. It also splits out Chrome OS which is pretty much GNU/Linux.


Alpine and GNU/Linux are Posix, while Android is not.


I don't think Posix is very relevant to what is or isn't linux.

macOS is more posix than NixOS, but everyone knows NixOS is a real linux distro, and macOS is not one.


Me neither! I was suggesting to use "Posix" instead of "Linux" because it properly separates GNU/Linux or other Linuxes from Android. Posix is what Android isn't but what MacOS is. What people erroneously try to call "Linux" because they don't have a better word.




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