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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.
by morshu9001 9mo ago
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.
- pjmlp 9mo agoNot 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.
- morshu9001 9mo agoThat's still on the Linux kernel. The userspace differences aren't what make it possible to lock down. Someone could just as easily make a locked down desktop Linux, which maybe ChromeOS is already.