Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used operating system

Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by bitmapbrother on Monday April 03, 2017 @01:59PM (#14025306)

>You could have a bug in a single binary at the kernel level, but instead of a tiny 1Kb diff patch you wait a year for a giant 1.2 GB vendor update that also contains a lot of other changes you have no interest in.

Security patches are not 1+ GB in size - no where close to it. You're referring to OS updates that completely replace the old OS.

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Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by temac on Monday April 03, 2017 @03:22PM (#14026181)

So there are security patches in Android? So the problem seems to be: some vendors seem not interested in distributing them... :/

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Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by bitmapbrother on Monday April 03, 2017 @06:08PM (#14027670)

Google distributes patches each month to OEM's 1 month before they're released. Some OEM's merge them into their code base and create a patch while others don't really care.

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Re:Android overtakes Windows as the internet’s most used ope... by flukus on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @02:39AM (#14030087)

Does android have a patch mechanism OEM's can use to distribute the patches or do they have to distribute a whole new image?

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