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CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (www.neowin.net)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Nah, but there were some Linux evangelists claiming this couldn't possibly happen to Linux and it only happened to Windows because Windows is bad. And it was your own fault for getting this BSOD if you're still running Windows.

And sure, Windows bad and all, but this one wasn't really Microsofts fault.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The sane ones of us know well that a faulty driver is a faulty driver, but! Linux culture is different. Which is why this happened so spectacularly with Windows. EDIT: and not with Linux

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've had the proprietary Nvidia driver crash my whole system a few times. Hoping their new open-source driver (not nouveau, I mean the new out-of-tree open-source one) is better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I had X crash due to Nvidia under FreeBSD a few times, and fewer kernel panics due to it. Never used Linux with Nvidia though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Well, ever heard freeBSD?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it supports kernel modules, so is also vulnerable to bad third party kernel code.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

🤔if nobody makes a third party kernel module, then there is still no risk

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Security through apathy!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Also, even if they do, you can choose to not load it.

It amused me that so many people had this installed, but had no idea what it was for.