Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (Android Developers Blog) [LWN.net]

Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (Android Developers Blog)

Posted Aug 31, 2017 8:15 UTC (Thu) by cpitrat (subscriber, #116459)
In reply to: Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (Android Developers Blog) by kronat
Parent article: Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (Android Developers Blog)

I understand 'in the industry' as 'in the phone OS industry', and 'update' as 'OS version upgrade pushed to users'. Which probably means apple doesn't do that either for iphones. And probably also Microsoft for windows phone.

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Hardening the Kernel in Android Oreo (Android Developers Blog)

Posted Aug 31, 2017 10:15 UTC (Thu) by kronat (guest, #117266) [Link]

> I understand 'in the industry' as 'in the phone OS industry', and 'update' as 'OS version
> upgrade pushed to users'. Which probably means apple doesn't do that either for
> iphones. And probably also Microsoft for windows phone.

For what regards iPhones, a rapid check on Wikipedia gives:

"The iOS kernel is the XNU kernel of Darwin. The original iPhone OS (1.0) up to iPhone OS 3.1.3 used Darwin 9.0.0d1. iOS 4 was based on Darwin 10. iOS 5 was based on Darwin 11. iOS 6 was based on Darwin 13. iOS 7 and iOS 8 are based on Darwin 14. iOS 9 is based on Darwin 15. iOS 10 is based on Darwin 16."

... but honestly, I don't want to bring it into an "Android vs. iOS discussion". What matters is that they ('probably') are marketing results on the Linux kernel without ('maybe') providing the full, contextual, information.