Privacy focused Android fork CopperheadOS became dead after the developer was fired. New forks like RattlesnakeOS, #!os or Android Hardening are available.
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RattlesnakeOS and #!os are NOT forks and are not developing privacy and security hardening features. The AndroidHardening project is not a fork either. It's the original project by the original development team, although it has been rebooted for Android P to do everything better.
The hardened_malloc project isn't a fork or port of OpenBSD malloc. It's a new allocator written from scratch to provide better performance and substantially better security than the past work on making an extended fork of OpenBSD malloc with additional security features.
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It's heavily inspired by OpenBSD malloc along with borrowing ideas from other allocators like jemalloc and PartitionAlloc. It's a much different allocator than OpenBSD malloc. It has much different design choices and approaches to the core design and is inherently 64-bit only.
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Well, the term 'fork' may not be used there with the exact software engineering context - it's more of 'inspiration'.
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They aren't the same thing. RattlesnakeOS explicitly doesn't include hardening. It's a set of scripts for making signed builds of AOSP on AWS. The #!os project is also focused on making scripting for building, aimed at making it easier to do reproducible builds, etc.
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