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DS426 Darn, no CloudFlare to mitigate their DDoS attack!? Also, I didn't realize that it did end up shipping with the 7.0 kernel. Reply
bit_user DS426 said: Darn, no CloudFlare to mitigate their DDoS attack!? I really wish some sort of bittorrent-like technology would've caught on, both for distributing distos and for distributing updates. Sure, they could still attack the servers holding the torrent files and doing centralized tracking, but anyone who's already got a torrent could use peer-to-peer discovery instead of relying on centralized trackers. DS426 said: Also, I didn't realize that it did end up shipping with the 7.0 kernel. Yeah, but it doesn't really mean anything that they bumped the major version number. Linus just decided to start doing that after every 20 releases. In other words, the Linux kernel's version number doesn't adhere to semantic versioning. Reply
Krieger-San FYI – The 7.0 kernel ships with the CopyFail exploit (I believe); be sure to disable the ability for the exploit to run: https://github.com/mahradbt/copyfail-mitigation#what-the-mitigation-does Happy New Linux Day my fellow Admin's Reply
usertests bit_user said: I really wish some sort of bittorrent-like technology would've caught on, both for distributing distos and for distributing updates. Sure, they could still attack the servers holding the torrent files and doing centralized tracking, but anyone who's already got a torrent could use peer-to-peer discovery instead of relying on centralized trackers. Pretty sure Linux ISOs are or were distributed by BitTorrent all the time, to the point where it became a pirate joke like yeah I'm just downloading gigabytes of Linux ISOs teehee. Don't know about Ubuntu's use of it specifically. bit_user said: Yeah, but it doesn't really mean anything that they bumped the major version number. Linus just decided to start doing that after every 20 releases. In other words, the Linux kernel's version number doesn't adhere to semantic versioning. It's still arguably an important release, even if you determine it's no more important than 6.19 or 7.1. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Released User you replied to didn't even imply anything beyond "I didn't know they were using 7.0 already". You dropped the versioning lore for no reason. Reply
bit_user usertests said: Pretty sure Linux ISOs are or were distributed by BitTorrent all the time, Oh, you can still download Ubuntu via bittorrent. Canonical releases torrent files and hosts official mirrors. That's not exactly what I mean, though. What I wish is that instead of getting .deb files from official mirrors, they could be shared peer-to-peer. Furthermore, if the ISO image was constructed properly, it could be just a wrapper + the individual .deb files, so that most of the seeding could be handled by the repo seeders. Part of my wish is that ISPs (like mine) wouldn't block it, either. I had to stop downloading Ubuntu via torrent, simply because of my ISP. Anyway, the official download is now so fast that it usually beats how fast I seem to recall the torrents were. usertests said: It's still arguably an important release, even if you determine it's no more important than 6.19 or 7.1. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Released He publishes those articles about every kernel release. usertests said: You dropped the versioning lore for no reason. Yeah, but some people might be unaware that a new major version number doesn't carry any special meaning, for the Linux kernel. Reply
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