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# The Linux Side Of Android
On a day to day basis we often hear that Android is a Linux based operating system, ok maybe not daily but I am sure you have heard this before. In this post I am going explain how Android is related to Linux and how they are different.
## What is Linux exactly?
Well Linux is just a kernel, a kernel is the core of an operating system(OS), it is the part that talks to the hardware and makes it possible for other software to run smoothly on a computer. Most Linuxes have four elements: the kernel, the HAL (Hardware abstraction Layer where drivers that are not compiled into the kernel), the Userspace (where applications 'reside'), and finally, the desktop environment, or UI (user interface), such as GNOME, KDE, Xfce and others. the userspace is generally GNU and Linux is the kernel. The Linux kernel was developed in 1991 as an open source operating system for desktop computers by Linus Torvalds.
## What is Android
Android is an open source operating system created for mobile devices by Google. The original developer of the Android software, Android, Inc., was purchased by Google, Inc. in 2005. It has been developed based on the Linux 2.6 kernel.
Basically Android is a modified Linux kernel with functions and APIs to enable it to operate efficiently and effectively on mobile devices. The Linux kernel that runs on Android has been modified primarily for the power needs of mobile devices with