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Re:Top OpenBSD Donors by pawadu on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @05:38AM (#13069698)
Sign me up too!

But to be honest, the problem with Android is not the Linux kernel but the fact that most phones were never designed to be continuously updated.

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Re:Top OpenBSD Donors by the_trapper on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @07:00AM (#13070012)
Actually Linux is a very poor choice when a product depends on out of tree binary blobs to operate. The lack of stable driver ABIs and APIs are a real problem for long term maintenance. I'm really surprised that the BSDs aren't a much bigger player in the embedded space.
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Re:Top OpenBSD Donors by protomyth on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @07:07AM (#13070040)
Wasn't the original Danger developed phones based on NetBSD?
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Re:Top OpenBSD Donors by ansible on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @07:37AM (#13070187)
Yes, but the real problem is the code source operating system that runs the cellular baseband.
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