And Mandriva itself was an attempted resurrection of the old Mandrake distribution (which was sorta the Ubuntu of its day). Really hoping OpenMandriva manages to make a go of it considering the ringer those folks have been through.

…what?

A busted kernel module/driver/plug-in/whatever that triggers a bootloop is going to require intervention on any platform no matter whether the code happens to be published somewhere out on the internet or not. On top of that, Windows allows you to control/remove 3rd party kernel drivers just like on Linux, which is exactly what many of us have been stuck doing on endless devices for the last three days.

I fully advocate for open-source software and use it where I can, but I also think we should do that by talking about its actual advantages instead of just making up nonsense that will make experienced sysadmins spit out their coffee.

Unless your server was running Crowdstrike and also hosted in a time machine, yes it is.

Huh? Crowdstrike is an antivirus product, you’re only affected if you bought and installed it on your Windows devices. Crowdstrike also had issues with their Linux version a few weeks ago, but that one was thankfully less severe.

Only if they manage Crowdstrike systems, thankfully.

The official guidance has to come from Crowdstrike since it’s their problem, but this tip has helped on about 50% of our affected machines so far.

I believe they actually adopted it for their Tizen OS, unless I completely invented that memory.

Sorry to hear that :(

That’s what it sounds like to me, but it’s a bit unclear admittedly.

Do they (or whatever’s left of them) have a license to x86_64, or is it just x86?

Is MIPS still around? I know it was used a lot in embedded stuff but last I heard they were shutting down development of new MIPS chips.

I had no idea this started out on HP-UX, I can’t imagine a lot of popular commercial games started out on niche Unixes.

Looks like a great set of updates!

Are you implying they list…less than four reasons?

“Wayland” doesn’t support any GPU’s, it’s the job of each GPU driver to support Wayland (and Nvidia’s now does).

Hopefully this will make it in as an update for currently supported kernels, but if not it should be in the upcoming 6.8 release:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-AMD-Lid-Suspend

Good god, someone who actually read the OP’s question and replied with information respondent to it instead of just shrieking “how dare you not use the distro I like” at them. I was starting to think that was banned around here :)

So many capital letters in that headline, it reads like my grandma trying to figure out texting.

Which model do you have? There’s a known issue affecting the sleep/hibernate for the chipset on the new AMD model on the, I believe AMD has already submitted patches to fix it in the next kernel release though.

You can try hacking support for Widevine DRM into Waydroid using the third party “waydroid_script” tool, but obviously no guarantees: https://github.com/casualsnek/waydroid_script#integrate-widevine-drm-l3