This week Noah takes you through what happened with the Crowdstrike incident, and how you could prevent a similar catastrophe with free and open source software. System76 announces a release date for Cosmic DE alpha. The Immich team is.
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Crowd Strike Outage
Caused by defective update
Affected all Windows computers
8.5 Million Windows machines rendered unusable
Flights grounded
Entire health care sectors shut down
Kernel vs User mode
WHQL Certification
Crowd Strike had a WHQL Certification
Anti-virus
Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and/or anticipated threat detection
Channel Files
Microsoft could have provided an API
EU requires Microsoft to provide the same access Windows
No checks on the channel file
Crowd Strike Falcon set as "boot-start driver"
April 21st 2010 McAfee deleted svchost.exe
George Kurtz CEO at both McAfee and Crowd Strike during the incidents
Handing off risk/PCI
We understand less and less
Understand your critical paths and have a back up
Hair shop "crash kit"
Cold spare emergency laptops/servers
Test on small set up machines then deploy
Don't push to prod on Friday
Keeping up to date is the best defense
Have a roll back plan
USE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Linux Crash Restoration (The Register) (https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/)
SystemD Automatic Boot Assessment
Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-Auto-Boot-Assessment)
Wazuh Post (https://wazuh.com/blog/crowdstrike-bsod-incident-and-how-wazuh-avoids-similar-risks/)
LibreNMS (https://www.librenms.org/)
CISA.gov (https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/07/19/widespread-it-outage-due-crowdstrike-update)
Tech Crunch (https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/19/what-we-know-about-crowdstrikes-update-fail-thats-causing-global-outages-and-travel-chaos/)
38:18 News Wire
Linux Mint 22 - ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-mint-22-is-official-heres-whats-new-and-how-to-try-it-for-yourself/)
OpenMandriva 24.07 - OpenMandriva.org (https://www.openmandriva.org/en/news/article/openmandriva-rome-24-07-released)
KaOS Linux 2024.07 - kaosx.us (https://kaosx.us/news/2024/kaos07/)
EXT4 Optimizations - Phoronix (https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-EXT4)
Open Source GPU Drivers - ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-finally-open-sources-some-of-its-gpu-drivers-how-to-tell-whats-under-your-hood/)
Switzerland Requires Open Source - ZDNet (https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/)
AI Model Rivaling OpenAI and Google - Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/07/23/meta-new-ai-llama-open/)
Groq's Llama AI Tops Leader Board - Venturebeat (https://venturebeat.com/ai/groq-open-source-llama-ai-model-tops-leaderboard-outperforming-gpt-4o-and-claude-in-function-calling/)
39:25 System76 Cosmic Alpha Release
August 8th
What other company is focused on the Linux desktop?
System76 decided to make their own desktop, Cosmic
Constant friction if forking another DE
Clean slate approach
System76 survey
System76 has been dog fooding
Modular design
Enabling "desktop experiences"
Try Cosmic and give polite productive feedback
System76 Transmission Log EP 10 (https://system76.transistor.fm/10)
48:52 Immich
New License
Individual $24.99
Server $99.99
Immich came from a developer who wanted to replace Google Photos
Experience is better than Google Photos now
FUTO (https://futo.org/) grant allows full time development
Go fund open source
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