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morshu9001yesterday at 12:32 AM1 replyview on HN

Android is Linux. There could easily be a secure-boot desktop Linux too if companies cared to target that platform with things like banking apps.


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pjmlpyesterday at 9:44 AM

Not really, it makes use of Linux kernel, cages it on pseudo-microkernel architecture since Treble and Mainline refactorings, uses a Java userspace, and the NDK has a quite clear list of what APIs are allowed to be called.