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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by hedora on Thursday September 14, 2023 @02:49PM (#37513103)
Do they require the hardware drivers to be upstreamed to the Linux kernel?

If not, then there's no way to patch security issues.

Also, what about the binary blobs, such as the cell and wifi chipset operating systems?

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by modeless on Thursday September 14, 2023 @03:29PM (#37513683)
I don't know but the hardware drivers are not directly exposed to the web. The biggest security issue is the web facing attack surface and Google is in complete control of that.
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