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lxgr • today at 3:46 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

I'd definitely consider Android separate from Linux, yes. Their multimedia subsystems are completely different. The same applies to tons of embedded Linux platforms running an embedded Chromium or WebKit.

Browsers have also largely switched to handling most aspects of TLS and certificates themselves, despite there being OS libraries for those as well; the same applies to HTTP.