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Fedora 42 System Audit 2025
Fedora 42 System Audit 2025
Fedora, an example of giant tech compromise...
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Fedora is not a server version of the OS and also is not intended for mainstream use... it's designed to be the OS where they try new things that will eventually get rolled into the pay to play RHEL. I'm fairly certain the core isolation technologies are not going to be hobbled on a server platform.
At issue is NOT Fedora, but Systemd, your certainty maybe wrongly misplaced. Watch the video....
Then perhaps you should have chosen your thread subject more carefully?
Again, thread title should reflect content.
I did. It was mostly some nobody trying to get hype.
Flattering, but enough about my poor writing skills and the content creator's possible motivations, would you care to provide your technical expertise and enlighten us about what might have been exaggerated in his analysis of Systemd 257 and our current Linux distributions as suggested in the video? That was my interest in posting the information here on GRC.
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He's looking for hype because he says every little thing he claims to find is "impact: critical". I don't see where he had anything negative to say about SystemD other than if the system faults and some logs COULD be lost. While that's not good, it certainly isn't likely "critical" in any way. As for the fact that SystemD does too much... this is a common complaint, and I don't care to get involved in this particular flame war. It's how it is, and it's mostly working, and there will always be someone who thinks it should have been done another way.
Hype? May I ask; do you use Linux, and with what and how do you audit your system(s)?
Critical? Yeah, I know a part mentioned in the beginning of the video was serious enough that Steve created a tool to help identify the issue. Sounds to me serious!
https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
The Fedora forum discussion on this #f42 issue(s) has been as expected and laughable in the least, and why I brought it here.
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/re-dj-ware-is-fedora-42-safe/150924/18
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/re-dj-ware-is-fedora-42-safe/150924/18
I have plenty of OS experience, thanks. I've been using UNIX (not Linux) since we cared whether or not someone was on AT&T versus BSD. (The late 80's.)
To be fair, I do not currently run Linux on anything I consider publicly exposed or system critical, but I have in the past. If I wanted to audit any system, I would probably be doing so against the STIGs.
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