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Who's going to make sure LineageOS users get security updates in a timely manner? Is anyone going to be paid to work on it? Any large OSS distribution is going to have a fairly continuous stream of security fixes to ship to their users, and that takes a fair amount of time, and I'm always concerned about whether any new project (okay—it's not quite new, but they have a fraction of the number of developers they did tw…
Who's going to make sure LineageOS users get security updates in a timely manner? Is anyone going to be paid to work on it? Any large OSS distribution is going to have a fairly continuous stream of security fixes to ship to their users, and that takes a fair amount of time, and I'm always concerned about whether any new project (okay—it's not quite new, but they have a fraction of the number of developers they did tw…
Yet somehow most stock ROMs are worse at maintaining security patches.
It's actually astounding, albeit hardly surprising, that companies often have zero interest in pushing security patches to devices not being manufactured anymore.
(Will also look into seeing how I can contribute, although every time I've tried I've hit a "users file crappy bugs" filter that stops me reporting without installing a debug build on my main phone.)
So is it time to buy a phone instead of my OnePlus One as it won't be updated anymore?
I used to use CM on everything but over the last few years I've been plenty happy with pure stock Android (+ root). Didn't end up using most of CM's extra features and found that it was often unstable and/or leaving lots of things just sort of half-working.
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Yet somehow most stock ROMs are worse at maintaining security patches.
This. It's actually astounding, albeit hardly surprising, that companies often have zero interest in pushing security patches to devices not being manufactured anymore.
Who's going to make sure LineageOS users get security updates in a timely manner? Is anyone going to be paid to work on it? Any large OSS distribution is going to have a fairly continuous stream of security fixes to ship to their users, and that takes a fair amount of time, and I'm always concerned about whether any new project (okay—it's not quite new, but they have a fraction of the number of developers they did tw…
Yet somehow most stock ROMs are worse at maintaining security patches.
OTOH, in a sense I have a higher expectation of "aftermarket" OSes insofar as they're actually pushing semi-regular updates which I'd hope would include all needed security updates.
So is it time to buy a phone instead of my OnePlus One as it won't be updated anymore?
You're probably better off using a stock Android derivative built for OPO. There's always a nice variety of them on xda-developers. I used to use CM on everything but over the last few years I've been plenty happy with pure stock Android (+ root). Didn't end up using most of CM's extra features and found that it was often unstable and/or leaving lots of things just sort of half-working.
Privacy guard still beats whatever stock rom has.
So is it time to buy a phone instead of my OnePlus One as it won't be updated anymore?
So is it time to buy a phone instead of my OnePlus One as it won't be updated anymore?
You're probably better off using a stock Android derivative built for OPO. There's always a nice variety of them on xda-developers. I used to use CM on everything but over the last few years I've been plenty happy with pure stock Android (+ root). Didn't end up using most of CM's extra features and found that it was often unstable and/or leaving lots of things just sort of half-working.
The question is what will ensure the continual non-profitness of lineageOS? The problem is two fold: 1. Get maintainers. 2. Make sure that the high ranking individuals can't just "take the ball and go home", and (however unpopular this opinion may be here), GPL is the only way to ensure that they will never be able to sell out ever again. And especially after the CM/CyanogenOS/Focal/Paranoid Android situation, privat…