EPISODE · Aug 26, 2024 · 1H 20M
577: Summer Kernel Corn Roast
from LINUX Unplugged · host Jupiter Broadcasting
Sixty vulnerabilities and exposures disclosed in one week sounds like a lot. We'll explain why it's just business as usual.Sponsored By:Core Contributor Membership: Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMToronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024Berlin with Brent — September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Saturday, Sep 14, 2024Check out Alex’s “Building a Colo Server” videoMicrosoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs — The cause: an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a 2-year-old vulnerability in GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices.What the f*** is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care — This update was not supposed to apply to dual-boot systems, but did anyway.SBAT Revocations: Boot Process - Ubuntu Community Hub“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft updateUbuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September - PhoronixSRU Mailing List AnnoucementCanonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu ReleasesKernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases - Kernel - Ubuntu Community HubLinus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs — The bcachefs patches have become these kinds of "lots of development during the release cycles rather than before it", to the point where I'm starting to regret merging bcachefs.Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc5 - Linus Torvalds — No one is being jerks here, Linus and I are just sitting in different places with different perspectives. He has a resonsibility as someone managing a huge project to enforce rules as he sees best, while I have a responsibility to support users with working code, and to do that to the best of my abilities.LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.Linux is a CNA — As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CNA as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux.The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don't stress. Do this insteadWhat is a "good" Linux Kernel bug?Keynote: Linux Kernel Security Demystified - Greg Kroah-Hartman - YouTubeMembership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!added pihole nix module by Tdback · Pull Request #3 · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — Recently, I wanted to start 'nixifying' some of my docker-compose setup. I've created a simple module for spinning up a podman container running pihole as a systemd service, so that way I can just stick it on any NixOS machine and easily make it my DNS server.NetworkManager cli (nmci) wrapper to easily create a new network connectionDistrohopper WheelNo idea where to distrohop next? Let the ultimate distrohopper decide for you!Proxmox Virtual Environment - NixOS WikiPick: SaunaFS is a distributed file system — A robust distributed POSIX file system meticulously designed to revolutionize your storage solutions by offering unmatched efficiency, security, and redundancy. At its core, SaunaFS is a distributed file system primarily written in C++, inspired by the pioneering concepts introduced by Google File System.Google File System - Wikipediasaunafs/INSTALL.md
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Sixty vulnerabilities and exposures disclosed in one week sounds like a lot. We'll explain why it's just business as usual.Sponsored By:Core Contributor Membership: Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!Tailscale: Tailscale is a programmable networking software that is private and secure by default - get it free on up to 100 devices! 1Password Extended Access Management: 1Password Extended Access Management is a device trust solution for companies with Okta, and they ensure that if a device isn't trusted and secure, it can't log into your cloud apps. Support LINUX UnpluggedLinks:💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FMToronto Meetup — Thursday, Aug 29, 2024Berlin with Brent — September Meetup @ Nextcloud Conference, Saturday, Sep 14, 2024Check out Alex’s “Building a Colo Server” videoMicrosoft’s latest security update has ruined dual-boot Windows and Linux PCs — The cause: an update Microsoft issued as part of its monthly patch release. It was intended to close a 2-year-old vulnerability in GRUB, an open source boot loader used to start up many Linux devices.What the f*** is an SBAT and why does everyone suddenly care — This update was not supposed to apply to dual-boot systems, but did anyway.SBAT Revocations: Boot Process - Ubuntu Community Hub“Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after Microsoft updateUbuntu Will Be Skipping Non-Critical Linux Kernel Updates For September - PhoronixSRU Mailing List AnnoucementCanonical Moves To Shipping Very Latest Upstream Kernel Code For Ubuntu ReleasesKernel Version Selection for Ubuntu Releases - Kernel - Ubuntu Community HubLinus Torvalds Begins Expressing Regrets Merging Bcachefs — The bcachefs patches have become these kinds of "lots of development during the release cycles rather than before it", to the point where I'm starting to regret merging bcachefs.Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs fixes for 6.11-rc5 - Linus Torvalds — No one is being jerks here, Linus and I are just sitting in different places with different perspectives. He has a resonsibility as someone managing a huge project to enforce rules as he sees best, while I have a responsibility to support users with working code, and to do that to the best of my abilities.LINUX Unplugged 545: 3,062 Days Later — Kent Overstreet, the creator of bcachefs, helps us understand where his new filesystem fits, what it's like to upstream a new filesystem, and how they've solved the RAID write hole.Linux is a CNA — As was recently announced, the Linux kernel project has been accepted as a CNA as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) for vulnerabilities found in Linux.The Linux security team issues 60 CVEs a week, but don't stress. Do this insteadWhat is a "good" Linux Kernel bug?Keynote: Linux Kernel Security Demystified - Greg Kroah-Hartman - YouTubeMembership Summer Discount — Take $1 a month of your membership for a lifetime!added pihole nix module by Tdback · Pull Request #3 · JupiterBroadcasting/nixconfigs — Recently, I wanted to start 'nixifying' some of my docker-compose setup. I've created a simple module for spinning up a podman container running pihole as a systemd service, so that way I can just stick it on any NixOS machine and easily make it my DNS server.NetworkManager cli (nmci) wrapper to easily create a new network connectionDistrohopper WheelNo idea where to distrohop next? Let the ultimate distrohopper decide for you!Proxmox Virtual Environment - NixOS WikiPick: SaunaFS is a distributed file system — A robust distributed POSIX file system meticulously designed to revolutionize your storage solutions by offering unmatched efficiency, security, and redundancy. At its core, SaunaFS is a distributed file system primarily written in C++, inspired by the pioneering concepts introduced by Google File System.Google File System - Wikipediasaunafs/INSTALL.md
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