• marcos@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    You mean like NixOS?

    It wouldn’t technically stop anything, it would just make your live Hell on Earth if you tried to add that self-updating ring-0 proprietary software in your servers.

    But I guess what you are looking for is immutable infrastructure? That one would stop the problem.

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      4 months ago

      Can’t see many Linux, or BSD, admins, being happy with “self-updating ring-0 proprietary software”. That’s very much a Windows culture thing.

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        4 months ago

        Did you hear about it when that same software had that same problem on its Linux endpoint system a couple of months ago?

        Well, me neither. I can’t tell how much of if is “anybody willing to use something like that will also want a Windows server” (crazy people), or “nobody that wants Linux would accept it”. Those two are not exactly the same, and I don’t know how well the auditors that keep pushing this kind of shit into companies interact with the culture.