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Simple. Look at Linux. Look at Windows. You centralize updates of the core OS and build ABIs/APIs for all of the parts of the system that are needed to be exte
by taligent 14y ago
Simple. Look at Linux. Look at Windows.
You centralize updates of the core OS and build ABIs/APIs for all of the parts of the system that are needed to be extensible e.g. drivers, libraries, shells etc. This model is proven to work and work well. It just needs Google to show some leadership.
- fpgeek 14y agoI'm sorry, but that's just bullshit. The Linux / Windows update situation that is most analogous to the carrier-gated smartphone updates is updating OSes inside large companies. It's the same update process - a third party has to certify your update and then the update is incrementally rolled out to a large number of computers. So how do corporations do with their Windows and Linux updates? Well, I'm using XP and RHEL 5 these days and I don't think my experience is at all atypical...