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by umanwizard 692 days ago
Microsoft is not who made the decision to put this on Windows' critical path; CrowdStrike was. Nothing stops you from running whatever dodgy third-party kernel modules you like on Linux or FreeBSD and they could easily cause the same sort of problem.
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Bjartr 692 days ago
In fact, CrowdStrike has taken down Linux systems in much the same way in the past year (in April I think). It's just that the impact was less widespread.
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deepsun 687 days ago
Linux yes, but *BSD systems have microkernel architecture, so must be more resilient to failures of one of the components. Although I have no idea whether the full system would boot either, I'm pretty sure it could partially load, give more information to user, and make it easier to fix.
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deepsun 687 days ago
Partially agree. Linux yes, but *BSD systems have microkernel architecture, so must be more resilient to failures of one of the components. Although I have no idea whether the full system would boot either, I'm pretty sure it could partially load, give more information to user, and make it easier to fix.
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