Android (operating system) Linux", with "Computerworld" adding that "Let me make it simple for you, without Linux, there is no Android". "Ars Technica" wrote that "Although Android is built on top of the Linux kernel, the platform has very little in common with the conventional desktop Linux stack". In August 2011, Linus Torvalds said that "eventually Android and Linux would come back to a common kernel, but it will probably not be for four to five years". In December 2011, Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the start of Android Mainlining Project, which aims to put some Android drivers, patches and features back into the Linux
Fedora (operating system) installed using the DNF package manager or GNOME Software. Additionally, extra repositories can be added to the system, so that software not available in Fedora can be installed easily. Software that is not available via official Fedora repositories, either because it doesn't meet Fedora's definition of free software or because its distribution may violate US law, can be installed using third-party repositories. Popular third-party repositories include RPM Fusion free and non-free repositories. Fedora also provides users with an easy-to-use build system for creating their own repositories called Copr. Since the release of Fedora 25, the operating system defaults to the