this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2024
228 points (99.6% liked)

Linux

48220 readers
843 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.pt/post/5733711

A severe vulnerability in OpenSSH, dubbed "regreSSHion" (CVE-2024-6387), has been discovered by the Qualys Threat Research Unit, potentially exposing

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] oKtosiTe@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Most images and distros are just Raspbian at their core and as such are pretty easy to upgrade.

I upgraded my homebridge/pihole from Bullseye to Bookworm just a few days ago and it went off without a hitch.

[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Did the same with raspi3... It broke too many things for me and couldn't be restarted. I then completely reinstalled it.

[–] oKtosiTe@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Aww that sucks. To be fair I did take a full image backup before attempting the upgrade in case something went awry.

[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I also had a complete backup, but I was also considering reinstalling it at the time anyway. Accordingly, only partially restored data. But you should definitely make a backup, that's true.