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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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OpenSSH: race condition in sshd allows remote code execution (stackdiary.com)

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A severe vulnerability in OpenSSH, dubbed "regreSSHion" (CVE-2024-6387), has been discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit, potentially exposing

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

But it isn't musl based? And I never heard it had anything except for the rolling release?

[–] Pacmanlives 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Has had Musl for awhile here is the install stage https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/#amd64-advanced . Bunch of docs on their wiki too. Gentoo is a rolling release you are correct but there is testing and stable branches. Stable branch is enterprise production ready. I know of a few hardware vendors that are using a custom gentoo builds under the hood. One of them is a big name storage array company that people spend hundreds if not millions on their arrays.

My experience with Void was hyper rolling release . You get things quickly kind of like Arch.

Gentoo stable runs a little bit older software for stability sake. With that being said you can mix and match stable with testing. I would assume there is some gotchas but I have not run into any yet. I am running the testing branch just for KDE software right now to have the latest and greatest KDE but a super stable base.

Definitely something to take a look at if you’re a more advanced user. I am coming back to Gentoo after about 15 years off and just loving it. Compile times are not that bad with new hardware. My Intel NUC I am running on is crushing it. I remember X taking like a week to compile back in like 2003 lol

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

Sorry but imo "compilation" and "production" cannot be used in one sentence. Imagine the electricity bills and compilation times on office machines with i3s or Celerons

[–] Pacmanlives 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Everything gets compiled at some point to be able to run.

Lot of people running large gentoo server farms will compile and run binary’s. Even Gentoo is officially supporting binary packages for their stable branch. Package set is ever growing right now too

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

What I meant is that compiling the same program on 100 machines is a horrifying waste of resources and downtime. Binaries exist but it destroys the point of Gentoo that was never meant for production in the first place.

[–] shazeal115 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Except you can compile binaries on one machine and install those binaries on the other 99. Gentoo is probably the easiest way to create a custom distro because of this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

distcc so you can compile on the faster ones and distribute it