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Can't stop giggle. Android is Linux on mobile and ChromeOS is linux on desktop

• gcp 10y ago
  Linux + Walled Garden, unfortunately.
  • pawadu 10y ago
    With a pretty huge door you can open from the inside: https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton
• pjmlp 10y ago
  That is wishful thinking. Android is 90% Java frameworks. C and C++ applications are only allowed to use these libraries from the underlying OS. https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis.html Trying to link to anything else will terminate the application, starting with Android 7. https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-7.0-changes.html#ndk https://developer.android.com/about/versions/nougat/android-... ChromeOS is a browser based OS, that happens to have Linux underneath. On Android Things, the NDK is even more constrained to the point that the device drivers API is mostly exposed via Java. https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/index.html https://developer.android.com/things/sdk/index.html In all cases, their fork of Linux has some POSIX API removed. http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine.pdf http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~vatlidak/resources/POSIXmagazine... So, Google could tomorrow replace Linux by anything else and only OEMs writing drivers would notice. Which is actually what they are doing with their Fuchsia project. https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror