Don't panic It's only 60 Linux CVE security bulletins a week

https://www.zdnet.com/article/dont-panic-its-only-60-linux-cve-security-bulletins-a-week/

by CrankyBear • 2 years ago

20 17 2 years ago

rurban• 2 years ago

We don't panic because we already know that huge monolithic kernels with millions of undetected bugs in ring 0 are still much better than secure micro kernels with 0 bugs in ring 0. Linus made that clear, because Linus

JackSlateur3• 2 years ago

We don't panic because we know that CVE is a somewhat worthless metric.

And yes, the world is stupid for using monolithic kernels. All the people are stupids except me ! (Irony besides: such kernels are used because performance matters in the real world).

ChocolateGod3• 2 years ago

Irony besides: such kernels are used because performance matters in the real world

Is there that much of a performance penalty anymore? iOS on the latest Apple Silicon still has a massive leap over the benchmarks of the latest Android devices.

rightbyte• 2 years ago

We don't panic becouse we usually don't run hostile code on our computers and on a time share system the other users usually don't try to hack you.

Don't panic It's only 60 Linux CVE security bulletins a week

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