Bill Anderson: Android is Just Another Distribution of Linux. Android News for Costa Rica, 13. Mai 2014, abgerufen am 12. September 2014 (englisch): „Android is not a GNU/Linux distribution, but it is a distribution of Linux. More specifically, it is a distribution of embedded Linux that uses many NetBSD utilities.“
Scott Alan Miller: Linux Administration Best Practices; Practical solutions to approaching the design and management of Linux systems. Packt Publishing, 2022, ISBN 978-1-80056-879-2, Is Linux UNIX?, S.29ff. (englisch, eingeschränkte Vorschau in der Google-Buchsuche): “While most operating systems built from Linux have never bothered to pay for any kind of UNIX certification, one of them recently did: EulerOS by Huawei which is built from CentOS, which in turn, is built from Fedora. Only EulerOS as a product officially carries the UNIX trademark designation, but it shows that the broader ecosystem is meeting the specifications. … In reality, the Linux and BSD ecosystems have demonstrated that the utility of the UNIX certification process has run its course and the process is now detrimental to the industry and serves no purpose. At the end of the day, being compatible with UNIX is worthless, it is Linux and BSD that other systems want to maintain compatibility with.”
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Dave Burke: Porting Osmos to Linux: A Post-Mortem (part 2/3). hemispheregames.com, 18. Mai 2010, abgerufen am 16. Juni 2012 (englisch): „Didn’t Love: Packaging the Game. It took days of effort to create the binary packages for Osmos […] How should an app be packaged in Linux? […]There are no standards or clear answers to any of these questions. There’s no documentation for this stuff! Asking on the forums will typically net you a spectrum of answers with no consensus answer and lots of little side arguments. I basically reverse engineered what I saw other apps doing (which sadly was of little comfort because everyone does it differently). I settled on supporting .deb/.rpm/.tar.gz with explicit 32 bit and 64 bit executables […]“
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Chris Hoffman: Android is Based on Linux, But What Does That Mean? 12. Mai 2014, abgerufen am 23. April 2015 (englisch): „Android may be based on Linux, but it’s not based on the type of Linux system you may have used on your PC. You can’t run Android apps on typical Linux distributions and you can’t run the Linux programs you’re familiar with on Android. Linux makes up the core part of Android, but Google hasn’t added all the typical software and libraries you’d find on a Linux distribution like Ubuntu. This makes all the difference.“
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Jeff Hoogland: Six Signs Android really isn't Linux. Thoughts on technology, 7. Juli 2011, abgerufen am 20. April 2015 (englisch): „Many people argue that Android has put Linux into the hands of millions of users. While there is no doubting that Android has been a raging success, I would argue that Google has put Android into the hands of millions of people – not Linux.“
Anika Kehrer: Wieviel Linux steckt in Android?. Online auf linux-magazin.de vom 10. November 2009; abgerufen am 11. September 2013.
Robert Staudinger: Distributionsunabhängige Pakete mit Autopackage – Eines für alle.Linux-Magazin 2006/02, 1. Februar 2006, abgerufen am 11. April 2012: „Obwohl sie nach dem gleichen Prinzip arbeiten, laufen RPMs von Suse 9.2 nicht unter Suse 9.3 und schon gar nicht unter Red Hat. Das Autopackage-Projekt setzt auf einen einheitlichen Standard für die Erstellung von Installationspaketen. Dabei lösen die einzelnen Pakete ihre Abhängigkeiten selbst auf.“
Ingo Molnár: Ingo Molnar. plus.google.com, 17. März 2012, abgerufen am 16. Juni 2012 (englisch): „So, to fix desktop Linux we need a radically different software distribution model: less of a cathedral, more of a bazaar. […] – totally flat package dependencies (i. e. a package update does not forcibly pull in other package updates) […] – a guaranteed ABI platform going forward (once a package is installed it will never break or require forced updates again). Users want to be free of update pressure from the rest of the system, if they choose to.“
Troy Hepfner: Linux Game Development Part 2 – Distributable Binaries. 1. Oktober 2007, archiviert vom Original am 13. Oktober 2007; abgerufen am 19. Dezember 2011 (englisch): „Creating an executable that works on almost all Linux distributions is a challenge. There are a number of factors that contribute to the problem […]“
Miguel de Icaza: Linux and Independent Software Vendors. primates.ximian.com, 4. November 2003, archiviert vom Original am 15. Juli 2012; abgerufen am 7. April 2012 (englisch): „[…] staffing requirements for maintaining and testing […] software for a dozen of distributions and release versions quickly becomes a big burden […]“
Eric Brown: LSB 4.0 certifications aim to heal Linux fragmentation. linuxfordevices.com, 8. Dezember 2010, archiviert vom Original am 24. Dezember 2013; abgerufen am 16. November 2011 (englisch): „[…] LSB helps to reduce fragmentation, it does not eliminate it. „The issue of packaging and broader dependencies is still a big one (for me) at least“ writes Kerner. „The same RPM that I get for Fedora won’t work on Ubuntu, and Ubuntu DEB packages won’t work on SUSE etc etc.“ […]“
Simon Peter: AppImageKit Documentation 1.0. (PDF; 38 kB) PortableLinuxApps.org, 2010, S. 2–3, archiviert vom Original am 29. November 2010; abgerufen am 29. Juli 2011: „Linux distributions mostly use package managers for everything. While this is perceived superior to Windows and the Mac by many Linux enthusiasts, it also creates a number of disadvantages: Centralization […], Duplication of effort […], Need to be online […], No recent apps on mature operating systems […], No way to use multiple versions in parallel […], Not easy to move an app from one machine to another […]. The AppImage format has been created with specific objectives in mind: Be distribution-agnostic […], Maintain binary compatibility […]“
Bruce Byfield: Autopackage struggling to gain acceptance. linux.com, 12. Februar 2007, archiviert vom Original am 31. März 2008; abgerufen am 21. Januar 2012 (englisch): „If Hearn is correct, the real lesson of Autopackage is not how to improve software installation, but the difficulty – perhaps the impossibility – of large-scale changes in Linux architecture this late in its history. It’s a sobering, disappointing conclusion to a project that once seemed so promising.“
Troy Hepfner: Linux Game Development Part 2 – Distributable Binaries. 1. Oktober 2007, archiviert vom Original am 13. Oktober 2007; abgerufen am 19. Dezember 2011 (englisch): „Creating an executable that works on almost all Linux distributions is a challenge. There are a number of factors that contribute to the problem […]“
Miguel de Icaza: Linux and Independent Software Vendors. primates.ximian.com, 4. November 2003, archiviert vom Original am 15. Juli 2012; abgerufen am 7. April 2012 (englisch): „[…] staffing requirements for maintaining and testing […] software for a dozen of distributions and release versions quickly becomes a big burden […]“
Eric Brown: LSB 4.0 certifications aim to heal Linux fragmentation. linuxfordevices.com, 8. Dezember 2010, archiviert vom Original am 24. Dezember 2013; abgerufen am 16. November 2011 (englisch): „[…] LSB helps to reduce fragmentation, it does not eliminate it. „The issue of packaging and broader dependencies is still a big one (for me) at least“ writes Kerner. „The same RPM that I get for Fedora won’t work on Ubuntu, and Ubuntu DEB packages won’t work on SUSE etc etc.“ […]“
Simon Peter: AppImageKit Documentation 1.0. (PDF; 38 kB) PortableLinuxApps.org, 2010, S. 2–3, archiviert vom Original am 29. November 2010; abgerufen am 29. Juli 2011: „Linux distributions mostly use package managers for everything. While this is perceived superior to Windows and the Mac by many Linux enthusiasts, it also creates a number of disadvantages: Centralization […], Duplication of effort […], Need to be online […], No recent apps on mature operating systems […], No way to use multiple versions in parallel […], Not easy to move an app from one machine to another […]. The AppImage format has been created with specific objectives in mind: Be distribution-agnostic […], Maintain binary compatibility […]“
Bruce Byfield: Autopackage struggling to gain acceptance. linux.com, 12. Februar 2007, archiviert vom Original am 31. März 2008; abgerufen am 21. Januar 2012 (englisch): „If Hearn is correct, the real lesson of Autopackage is not how to improve software installation, but the difficulty – perhaps the impossibility – of large-scale changes in Linux architecture this late in its history. It’s a sobering, disappointing conclusion to a project that once seemed so promising.“
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: The death of the Linux distro. In: The death of the Linux distro. CBS Interactive, 14. Februar 2012, abgerufen am 19. September 2012 (englisch): „Take a look at how Android has become the dominant Linux distro on mobile platforms. […] So again, while B2G is essentially a Linux distro, people will come […]“