Zucca comments on Root access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distros

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[–] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Yikes.

I'd switch to musl on all of my boxes if it weren't that nearly all precompiled software (closed source, games mainly) are compiled against glibc.

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[–] Falcon@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Just use flatpak and podman, in a punch you can proot into a different system / zfs data set / btrfs sublime

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

So this means you need either Alpine repos or compile everything yourself?

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[–] Zucca@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Void offers musl too. Unless they've discontinued it.

But

compile everything yourself?

I do (almost) exactly that. I run Gentoo almost everywhere. The 'almost' is because Gentoo now offers an official bin repository too, so I can mix compiled and pre-compiled software. (Although you've always had the option to set up your own binary host).

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