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StimDeck ◴[30 Apr 24 06:36 UTC] No.40207890[source]▶

>>40205714 (OP) #

Just a reminder that there are plenty of systemd-less distros available. Also a reminder that those distros would have been safe from the nearly-solar-winds-level backdooring of Linux distros from XZ utils.

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Jonnax ◴[30 Apr 24 09:02 UTC] No.40208737[source]▶

>>40207890 #

That backdoor was never pushed out of the testing branches for distros.

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1. Arnavion ◴[30 Apr 24 19:28 UTC] No.40215202[source]▶

>>40208737 #

It was in OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a few days actually (RPM-based + rolling release + did the sshd patch). I was affected by it and it was fun watching the reliable ~100ms difference in `time /usr/sbin/sshd -h` with and without `TERM=foo`

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