Ask Noah Show 400 | Open Source Crowdstike Alternative

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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)
• SystemD Automatic Boot Assessment
• Phoronix
• Wazuh Post
• LibreNMS
• CISA.gov
• Tech Crunch

38:18 News Wire

• Linux Mint 22 - ZDNet

• OpenMandriva 24.07 - OpenMandriva.org

• KaOS Linux 2024.07 - kaosx.us

• EXT4 Optimizations - Phoronix

• Open Source GPU Drivers - ZDNet

• Switzerland Requires Open Source - ZDNet

• AI Model Rivaling OpenAI and Google - Washington Post

• Groq's Llama AI Tops Leader Board - Venturebeat

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

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 grant allows full time development
• Go fund open source

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