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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise (www.openwall.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They also believe we (Arch users) are unaffected because this backdoor targeted Debian and Redhat type packaging specifically and also relied on a certain SSH configuration Arch doesn't use. To be honest while it's nice to know we're unaffected, it's not at all comforting that had the exploiter targeted Arch they would have succeeded. Just yesterday I was talking to someone about how much I love rolling release distros and now I'm feeling insecure about it.

More details here: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xz/-/issues/2

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Someone always has to be the guinea pig.

That being said, maybe there's an argument for distros that do rolling releases to have an "intentionally delayed rolling release" that just trails the regular rolling release by a fixed amount of time to provide more time for guinea pigs to run into things. If you want rolling, but can live with the delay, just use that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

OpenSuse Slowroll does pretty much that, a slightly delayed rolling release.