alt Hacker NewsWhat does it mean for an OS to be ported to another OS? Do they mean "ported to devices that support Android"?
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okanat • yesterday at 10:58 PM
Android makes yearly releases. It is developed in cathedral-style. Google releases the source as a single big update. GrapheneOS is a fork. They need to port their customizations and extra software on top of the new release.
floxy • yesterday at 10:58 PM
Think of GrapheneOS as being a set of patches on top of the Android Open Source Project that Google releases:
They've ported the patches to work on top of the latest release.
tripdout • yesterday at 10:56 PM
Well, both, probably. GrapheneOS requires a lot of framework and device side changes.
It means they rebased all their changes on top of the new version. This is usually time-consuming because AOSP is not developed in the open, so you can't do this incrementally as things change -- you just get a massive drop sometime after release.