On 2017-12-18, A  Dumas wrote:
>rickman  wrote:
>> Don't phones get regular security updates?  I read that as of Nov 2017,
>> KitKat is used on 14% of devices.  If it had security issues and didn't get
>> updates, I would expect that to have been noted.  No?
>No. Phones, especially cheap ones, get abandoned after about 1 or 2 years.
>(Apple is a little better.) No upgrades, no security updates, nothing. “Buy
>our new model, chump!”

The same applies to many of the RPi's competitor cheap single-board
machines: they may come with Linux, but software upgrades tend to be
hard to come by because proprietary toolchains were used to put the
custom kernel together.

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