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Re:Right to Root Access by freedomben on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @10:35AM (#42698498)
They're part of Android. Android is not Linux and Linux is not Android, anymore than a car is a wheel and a wheel is a car. Don't confuse the foundation with the building.

Here's the API reference if you'd like details [1]. They are very much not just standard Linux permissions. Android includes a huge set of APIs on top of Linux

[1] https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.per...

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Re:Right to Root Access by oneshtein on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:19PM (#42700381)
KDE and Gnome also implement tons of API on top of Linux ecosystem. Android is Linux system, because it based on Linux.
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Re:Right to Root Access by nirui on Sunday January 19, 2025 @04:35AM (#42755490)
You've fully misunderstood the concept don't you?

KDE and Gnome are desktop environments that runs on top of an OS, they themselves are categorically not OS, and they don't provide OS facilitates. They don't even directly talk to RAM or core hardware without an OS managing everything in the middle.

Android is all by itself an OS, it got everything an OS should have, scheduler/trap handling, runtime, system apis/syscalls all the good stuff. It's just happened that Android currently runs on top of Linux kernel, and it utilizes the kernel to provide some aforementioned facilitates, so yes you can say Android builds On Top of Linux, but that's not saying Android Is Linux, the sentences simply mean different things.

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