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I love to hate on Microsoft but Crowdstrike literally crashed RedHat servers less than a month ago and Debian servers back in April. I think the common denominator here is Crowdstrike.

Opensuse should change their name to chameleon

The CrowdStrike problem really doesn't have anything to do with Windows. CS has also made a bunch of Debian servers kernel panic in april. This is genuinely a problem with CS not testing their updates.

This is another example of problems in Monopoly. Single company providing security solution to lot of major companies

I saw a commenter on Ars Technica say that the big issue is Habsburg Syndrome. Like Habsburg dynasty, the modern tech industry is so inbred that a small issue can quickly become catastrophic.

What shocked me is critical businesses, hospitals, airlines use Windows. I thought they use Linux. Linux dominates in the server world.

For thoae who don't know, an airline in the U.S. (Southwest) wasn't affected by this Crowdstrike BSOD issue because it was running in top of Windows 3.1 & 9.5. Yes, seriously!

Id like for Opensuse to keep the chameleon, but changing the name is perfectly good with me

the rebranding is about brand identity not association SEO for SUSE/openSUSE is a nightmare

TBH, the fact that this didn't happen on Linux & MacOS doesn't mean it couldn't. Falcon sensor on Linux is a kernel module as well. The real problem is any OS allowing this sort of nonsense...

the point is, you can't get a malware if your computer isn't working 😂

Honestly I think what SUSE could probably do to make this rebranding request go a whole lot smoother is offer an olive branch and assist openSUSE in developing their own recognizable branding. They don't have to do it, and I'm not expecting nor demanding that they do, but it would be pretty cool if SUSE did do that as a gesture that their request for openSUSE to rebrand was not made in bad faith and that they're willing to continue supporting the community distro in its new identity.

Crowdstrike protected windows computers from all the threats. 100% effectiveness.

The fact that with Windows a vendor can push an OTA update like that without the IT teams knowing about it is an issue.

We should learn from what happened here and work towards shielding Linux in such a way that third party software for safety is not nescessary. Considering that Linux has been growing in the desktop space, we should take safety more seriously.

A lot of tech evangelists are using the Crowdstrike crashes to raise their flags. You'll hear that the crash wouldn't have happened if they used Linux instead of Windows, or Rust instead of C++, or whatever. They are all wrong. The problem happened because an antivirus company with shady QA practices was given remote kernel access to thousands of machines. Their crappy update system was fed garbage and entered an unforeseen state. That's the kind of situation that can easily brick a machine regardless of the safety nets your software has in place, because preventing malicious software from running is what the entire thing is intended to do. The solution is not Linux, or Rust, but not to give kernel access to shady companies.

I would laugh really hard if the code that caused the outage was generated by an LLM. That would be chefs kiss.

"fuck you, i use linux" ahh moment

"The best way to keep your computer safe, is to turn it off" 🤷‍♂