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Re:Treble: A modular base for Android by kuschku on Saturday May 13, 2017 @06:25AM (#14330251)
Correct, the issue isn't in Linux itself.

It's in drivers, third party kernel modules, libraries, etc.

But that doesn't make it any easier.

On desktoo GNU/Linux or GNU/NT we don't have easy stable environments, and the fight between dynamic and static linking is always won by static linking. In the GNU world, that ended with snap/flatpack/docker/rkt/containerd

Re:Treble: A modular base for Android by digi_owl on Saturday May 13, 2017 @09:48AM (#14330950)
Only for those to introduce their own problems, like having some insecure lib sitting in a container somewhere...

I really wish userland devs would spend more time actually maintaining API/ABI stability, and less time reinventing wheels because they are not "perfect" (after whatever arbitrary marker for perfection they work with).

Re:Treble: A modular base for Android by kuschku on Saturday May 13, 2017 @10:10AM (#14331052)
To be honest, Alpine Linux based containers on Kubernetes are so amazingly stable, and "just works", it’s amazing.

But yes. One issue anywhere, and I can upgrade everything again.