Re:Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates
by rst on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @12:23PM
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Android apps update frequently, but core system components (where you'd expect dependency problems and tricky compatibility issues to crop up) update hardly at all, so it's not clear that it's a model to follow.
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Re:Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates
by izacus on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @01:21PM
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What does vendor not deciding to update a device have to do with an actual software mechanism of applying patches?
Re:Announcing Ubuntu Core, with snappy transactional updates
by Alupis on Tuesday December 09, 2014 @01:50PM
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Even "vendors" that do update frequently like Cyanogenmod, it's usually a flash over the existing rom, not a delta or single package update. That would be tough to do with a server environment unless every server had exactly the same base (a la BSD's)