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CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed (www.neowin.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Companies don't really use Debian or Rocky in widescale production because they have no support.

Now red hat or ubuntu is a different matter.

Honestly though this does point out that this is a pattern of behavior on crowdstrikes part. This should have been the canary in the coalmine.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

We actually use rocky and I think Debian at work for servers. We are currently migrating away from EOL centos .

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

A lot of companies use debian

[–] TrumpetX 8 points 4 months ago

We use Alma, which is basically Rocky. Before that, CentOS. Lots of people don't need or want the expensive support contracts.

OSS support though donations and commits is the way to go unless you get value out of those contracts (we would not).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don’t know about that. In the HPC space we use a lot of EL distros. Mainly Centos & now Rocky. Most of the nodes run the os in ram too. Though almost all those kind of systems have no internet connection and don’t use things like crowdstrike. I’ve worked for a few places where the only part of the company that used windows was the office staff eg accounting, hr, etc. everything else is/was using an EL distro or upstream of one eg Fedora. Those type of places usually don’t mess things like crowdstrike for a lot of different reasons eg the kind of data they’re processing and security requirements on that data.