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24 November 2024
Open Build Service - Utility to build and publish updated packages of an EOL distribution
Introduction When it comes to providing extended support for end-of-life (EOL) Linux distributions, the traditional method of building packages from sources may present certain challenges. One of the biggest challenges is the need for individual developers to install build dependencies on their own build environments. This often leads to different build dependencies being installed, resulting […]
15 July 2024
Run0 as a Sudo Alternative?
With version 256, systemd introduced run0. Lennart Poettering describes run0 as an alternative to sudo and explains on Mastodon at the same time what he sees as the problem with sudo. In this blog post, however, we do not want to go into the strengths or weaknesses of sudo, but take a closer look at […]
27 October 2023
All Systems Go! 2023
This years All Systems Go! took place on 2023-09-13 and 2023-09-14 at the nice location of Neue Mälzerei in Berlin, Germany. One Debian Developer and employee of NetApp had the opportunity to attend this conference: Bastian Blank. All Systems Go! focuses on low-level user-space for Linux systems. Everything that is above the kernel, but is […]
15 March 2022
Introduction to AppArmor
Fundamentally, access control under Linux is a simple matter: Files specify their access rights (execute, write, read) separately for their owner, their group, and finally, other users. Every process (whether a user’s shell or a system service) running on the system operates under a user ID and group ID, which are used for access control. […]
04 January 2018
The Processor as a Security Vulnerability
At the beginning of 2018, issues with memory management and Intel processors became public. According to these reports, it is apparently possible to read arbitrary areas of the kernel and userspace memory regions and thus potentially gain access to sensitive areas. Over the past few days, there have been rumors and speculations about the direction […]