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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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XZ backdoor in a nutshell (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Its toooo much bloat. There must be malware XD linux users at there peak!

[–] [email protected] 96 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tbf 500ms latency on - IIRC - a loopback network connection in a test environment is a lot. It's not hugely surprisingly that a curious engineer dug into that.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago

Especially that it only took 300ms before and 800ms after