Unbecredible@sh.itjust.works to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 5 months agoWe're catching strays at the No Kings protest!sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square145linkfedilinkarrow-up11.43Karrow-down117
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minus-squareLincolnsDogFido@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoI don’t have a horse in the race, because Linux anything is better than the alternatives but I do think its funny that this infographic says Ubuntu has pushed malware through apt, but makes no mention of the XZ backdoor for Debian
minus-squareiuminou@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoThat wasn’t specifically Debian it ended up in a few different repos but was caught by someone using Debian Testing
minus-squareLincolnsDogFido@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoYou’re right. It was the whole Linux kernel but it was published in the official repo for Debian so criticism for Ubuntu seems hypocritical
minus-squareiuminou@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 months agoNot specifically the kernel xz is a userspace program (/usr/bin/xz), not a kernel module
minus-squareLincolnsDogFido@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoI guess I shouldn’t have said kernel, but it’s used in virtually all major distros other than like Alpine and Gentoo.
I don’t have a horse in the race, because Linux anything is better than the alternatives but I do think its funny that this infographic says Ubuntu has pushed malware through apt, but makes no mention of the XZ backdoor for Debian
That wasn’t specifically Debian
it ended up in a few different repos but was caught by someone using Debian Testing
You’re right. It was the whole Linux kernel but it was published in the official repo for Debian so criticism for Ubuntu seems hypocritical
Not specifically the kernel
xz is a userspace program (/usr/bin/xz), not a kernel module
I guess I shouldn’t have said kernel, but it’s used in virtually all major distros other than like Alpine and Gentoo.