BuzzwordFS | LINUX Unplugged 145

chris

6 years ago

You’re insecure unless you’re running one of Greg’s Kernels & we think he’s right! Plus openSUSE chairman Richard Brown stops by to follow up on not shipping ZFS in openSUSE which leads to a passionate discussion.

And the simple thing we could all be doing to improve open source, but maybe we’re all feeling a little too entitled!

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Show Notes:

Pre-Show

Pi 2 Design is excited to introduce the first Tube Amp specifically designed for any of the 40-pin versions of the Raspberry Pi SBC Family. The 503HTA Hybrid Tube Amp HAT, designed and manufactured by Pi2Media (a division of PI 2 Design), is a High Quality I/O Shield designed to bring “Sweet Tube Sound” to the Raspberry PI ® family of Single Board Computers. This HAT allows the Raspberry Pi ® SBC to drive Headphones from 32 – 300 ohm with ease and fidelity.

Follow Up / Catch Up

Linus Torvalds Talks IoT, Smart Devices, Security Concerns, and More

IoT was the main topic at ELC, which included an OpenIoT Summit track, and the chief topic in the Torvalds interview.

Linux 4.6

This release adds support for USB 3.1 SuperSpeedPlus (10 Gbps), the new distributed file system OrangeFS, a more reliable out-of-memory handling, support for Intel memory protection keys, a facility to make easier and faster implementations of application layer protocols, support for 802.1AE MAC-level encryption (MACsec), support for the version V of the BATMAN protocol, a OCFS2 online inode checker, support for cgroup namespaces, support for the pNFS SCSI layout, and many other improvements and new drivers.

The FBI and the Mozilla Foundation Lock Horns over Known Security Hole

When the FBI brings its case to trial, it will have to hand its evidence over to the court and the defendant.

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Linux can’t keep you safe if you don’t update it

He took it one step further, saying that ”…your machine is insecure unless you’re running my kernel, or based on my kernel, or based on another one. If you’re not taking these fixes, then it is insecure.”