Sailfish is based on the Linux kernel, and Mer, which itself is a fork of MeeGo - a mobile Linux distro.
Hybris is just one component that Mer supports: a compatibility layer which allows the use of Android libraries and drivers. But that doesn't make it the backbone of Sailfish...
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Sailfish is based on the Linux kernel, and Mer, which itself is a fork of MeeGo - a mobile Linux distro.
Hybris is just one component that Mer supports: a compatibility layer which allows the use of Android libraries and drivers. But that doesn't make it the backbone of Sailfish...
I'd say those drivers and libraries are the backbone of an OS. Everything else is on top of them.