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"Finally, lollipop is the freebsd 5.0 of android" What do you mean by this, exactly?
by barbs 12y ago
"Finally, lollipop is the freebsd 5.0 of android"
What do you mean by this, exactly?
- jmartinpetersen 12y agoAs I remember FreeBSD 5.0 (and 5.1 and 5.2 for that matter) were always labelled -RELEASE (and not -STABLE, that didn't happen until 5.3). It was a chicken and egg kind of problem, where a lot of stuff in the new kernel was rewritten/redone, among other things to get rid of the GIANT lock and enable SMP support in the kernel. There was also a new threading implementation, a new I/O block layer and all sorts of stuff that needed more exposure.
- vidoc 12y agoWhat I mean by this - out of frustration because I want to love this new release - is that the 5.x release of android, on the couple of devices I upgraded is, buggier, laggier, and less stable than version 4.x. In terms of usability, I also noticed that they removed the ability to only display contacts that have a phone number: I can live with that but I can tell you my dad was furious about this. Another minor annoyance is that switching to a different WIFI network seemingly requires more taps than before. I've owned a few IOS devices in the past - an OS I am not a big fan of - but I am disappointed that Google routinely overlooks those kind of details that Apple certainly wouldn't.
- mahouse 12y agoYour comparison is interesting since everybody I know has said exactly the same of iOS 7.
- hayksaakian 12y agoIn 5, its two swipes from the top, then tap the name of the WiFi network or the word WiFi (under the signal icon) Seems pretty good to me. In 4.4 I swipe down once then press and hold the icon.
- androidsecrets 12y agoAh, yes, the-gestures-no-one-knows-about-unless-specifically-told. 1. Swiping down with 2 fingers brings you straight to the settings drop-down (vs. the notification drop-down). 2. The WiFi icon and the text beneath it do different things when pressed.