Windows crashed all around the world, openSUSE branding change: Linux & Open Source News
Summary
TLDRNick presenta las noticias de Linux y código abierto de la semana, destacando un importante fallo que causó pantallas azules en millones de PCs con Windows debido a un programa de terceros. También menciona la solicitud de renombramiento de openSUSE, la eliminación de AppArmor y Snaps por parte de Solus, y novedades en GNOME 47 y el kernel de Linux 6.10. Finalmente, discute actualizaciones en el emulador de PS2 PCSX2 y Wine 9.13. El video está patrocinado por Squarespace y Tuxedo Computers.
Takeaways
- 😀 Un incidente importante en el mundo de la tecnología: un gran parón informático que afectó a millones de PCs Windows, causando el famoso 'blue screen of death' debido a un programa de terceros que también se ejecuta en Linux pero que no provocó fallos en sistemas Linux.
- 💼 La comunidad de openSUSE pide a la comunidad de SUSE que cambie su nombre y su logotipo para no estar tan cercanos al marca de SUSE, generando preocupaciones sobre la gobernanza y el apoyo que SUSE brinda a la comunidad openSUSE.
- 🌐 El patrocinador del video, Squarespace, ofrece una plataforma integral para crear, publicar y gestionar sitios web, con herramientas fáciles de usar y optimización de SEO incluida.
- 🚫 La causa del parón informático fue un problema de configuración o una actualización defectuosa en CrowdStrike, una firma de ciberseguridad que proporciona protección en tiempo real contra ataques cibernéticos.
- 💡 Una solución temporal al problema de CrowdStrike fue eliminar un archivo específico en el directorio de Windows para evitar que los sistemas se bloquearan continuamente.
- 🔒 El incidente de CrowdStrike resalta la preocupación de tener un único sistema, como el de CrowdStrike, que es utilizado por la mayoría de las empresas líderes y que representa un punto de fracaso común.
- 🐧 La decisión de Solus de abandonar AppArmor y Snaps, optando por Flatpaks en su lugar, debido a la carga de mantenimiento que representan los parches de AppArmor.
- 🌐 La versión alpha de GNOME 47 se lanzó con mejoras en la interfaz de usuario, soporte para colores de acento, mejoras en el rendimiento y nuevas características para dispositivos de realidad virtual y controladores de hardware.
- 🔧 El lanzamiento de la versión 6.10 del núcleo de Linux trae mejoras en seguridad, rendimiento de red, soporte de hardware y actualizaciones para controladores de sonido y cámaras.
- 🎮 Actualizaciones significativas en PCSX2, el emulador de PlayStation 2, y Wine 9.13, que mejora la compatibilidad con aplicaciones de Windows en Linux.
Q & A
¿Qué evento de interrupción significativo se discutió en el programa de noticias de Linux y código abierto?
-Se discutió una interrupción importante que afectó a millones de PCs Windows, causando que mostraran una pantalla azul de muerte sin poder recuperarse fácilmente. Esto fue atribuido a un programa de terceros que también se ejecuta en Linux pero no causó caídas en sistemas Linux.
¿Qué compañía de seguridad cibernética fue responsable del gran fallo que afectó a muchas empresas el viernes?
-La Oficina de Ciberseguridad de Suiza culpa a CrowdStrike por el problema, que fue confirmado como una causa de un fallo en su producto llamado Falcon Sensor, que ofrece monitoreo y protección en tiempo real contra ataques cibernéticos.
¿Qué solución fue encontrada temporalmente para evitar que los sistemas Windows se bloqueen con la pantalla azul de muerte?
-Se encontró una solución temporal que consistía en eliminar un archivo del directorio de CrowdStrike en el sistema de archivos de Windows, lo que detuvo los bloqueos continuos de Windows.
¿Qué implicancia tuvo el problema de CrowdStrike para las empresas que utilizan este sistema?
-El problema de CrowdStrike implicó un costo económico significativo, con la cancelación de más de mil vuelos, sistemas de pago caídos y hospitales afectados, incluso impactó los Juegos Olímpicos de París.
¿Por qué no se consideró que el problema de CrowdStrike fue específicamente para Microsoft 365?
-Se descubrió que Microsoft 365 tuvo sus propios problemas, independientes de los causados por CrowdStrike.
¿Qué cambio de marca se está solicitando a la comunidad de openSUSE por parte de SUSE?
-SUSE está solicitando a la comunidad de openSUSE que cambie su nombre y su logotipo para distanciarse de la marca SUSE y no confundir a los clientes potenciales.
¿Qué decisión tomó el equipo de Solus sobre el uso de AppArmor y Snaps?
-El equipo de Solus decidió dejar de utilizar AppArmor y, en consecuencia, también dejar de soportar Snaps, ya que estos dependen fuertemente de AppArmor para funcionar con aislamiento y confinamiento sólidos.
¿Cuál es la alternativa que se sugiere para los usuarios de Solus en lugar de Snaps?
-Se sugiere a los usuarios de Solus que migruen hacia Flatpaks, que son una alternativa de empaquetamiento de software con menos mantenimiento requerido.
¿Qué características nuevas se incluyeron en la primera versión alfa de GNOME 47?
-GNOME 47 incluye soporte para colores de acento en el shell de GNOME y en las aplicaciones GTK, compilación con Wayland, soporte para cascos de realidad virtual en Wayland, mejoras en el rendimiento de GNOME Software y soporte para sesiones de inicio de sesión remoto persistentes.
¿Qué novedades se presentaron en la versión 6.10 del núcleo de Linux?
-El núcleo de Linux 6.10 agrega un nuevo sistema de llamadas llamado M seal, un nuevo sub-sistema de generación de perfiles, mejoras en el rendimiento de red, soporte mejorado para hardware, y mejoras en los controladores de pstate para CPUs de Intel y AMD.
¿Qué actualización significativa se realizó en PCSX2, el emulador de PlayStation 2?
-PCSX2 se actualizó para tener una interfaz mejorada, eliminando el uso del toolkit de widgets WX en favor de Qt, integrando SDL2 para facilitar la configuración de controladores y agregando una biblioteca de correcciones de juego preconfiguradas.
¿Qué mejoras se realizaron en Wine 9.13 para mejorar la compatibilidad con aplicaciones de Windows en Linux?
-Wine 9.13 continuó con la reescritura del motor de command.exe, mejorando los códigos de retorno para indicar éxito o fracaso de comandos y agregando soporte para controladores de ODBC de Windows.
Outlines
😀 Problemas de seguridad y el impacto en Windows
El primer párrafo aborda un incidente de seguridad significativo que causó que millones de PCs con Windows mostraran una pantalla azul de muerte y tuvieran dificultades para reiniciarse. Esto fue atribuido a un programa de terceros que también funciona en Linux pero no causó fallos en sistemas Linux. Además, se discute la solicitud de la comunidad openSUSE para cambiar su marca y logotipo, y se menciona el patrocinio de Squarespace, una plataforma todo en uno para crear y gestionar sitios web, destacando sus herramientas de diseño y optimización de motores de búsqueda.
🔧 Problemas con el software de seguridad CrowdStrike
Este párrafo se centra en el fallo de CrowdStrike, una empresa de seguridad cibernética, cuya herramienta Falcon Sensor provocó un gran parón informático, afectando a empresas de múltiples sectores. Se describe cómo la falta de configuración o una actualización defectuosa de CrowdStrike causó el colapso de Windows, con un costo económico significativo. Aunque se encontró una solución temporal, consistiendo en eliminar un archivo específico, se destaca la preocupación por la dependencia en un solo sistema que representa un punto de falla común para muchas empresas.
📢 Cambios en la marca y estrategia de Souza
El tercer párrafo discute la petición de la empresa Souza al proyecto openSUSE para que cesen el uso de la marca Souza, ya que podría generar confusión con su producto Enterprise Linux. Se menciona la preocupación por la gobernanza de openSUSE y cómo la comunidad parece estar de acuerdo en aceptar la solicitud de Souza, lo que podría llevar a un cambio de nombre y logotipo para evitar malentendidos con los clientes potenciales.
🛠️ Solus y su decisión sobre AppArmor y Snaps
El cuarto párrafo informa sobre la decisión del proyecto Solus de abandonar AppArmor y Snaps, debido a la carga de mantenimiento que representan. Se sugiere que los usuarios migren a Flatpaks en su lugar. Además, se menciona la versión Alpha de GNOME 47, que trae mejoras significativas, como soporte para colores de acento y compilación con Wayland, mejoras en la interfaz de usuario y rendimiento, y se destaca la versión 6.10 del núcleo de Linux, que incluye mejoras en seguridad, rendimiento de red y soporte de hardware.
🎮 Actualizaciones en emuladores y compatibilidad de juegos
El último párrafo cubre actualizaciones en PCSX2, el emulador de PlayStation 2, y Wine 9.13, que mejora la compatibilidad de aplicaciones de Windows en Linux. Se mencionan mejoras en la interfaz de usuario, configuración de controladores y soporte para logros retroactivos en juegos. También se destaca la sorpresa de ver Photoshop CC 2024 en la lista de aplicaciones mejoradas por Wine, y se promociona Tuxedo Computers, una empresa que ofrece computadoras con Linux preinstalado.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Linux
💡Open Source
💡Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
💡CrowdStrike
💡Squarespace
💡Falcon Sensor
💡Rebranding
💡Solus
💡AppArmor
💡Snaps
💡GNOME 47
💡Linux Kernel 6.10
Highlights
Major outage affecting millions of Windows PCs due to a third-party program.
The program also runs on Linux but did not crash Linux boxes.
SUSE asks the openSUSE community to rebrand and change their logo.
Squarespace is the sponsor of the video, offering an all-in-one platform for website creation.
Giant IT outage on Friday affecting banks, TV broadcasters, airlines, train operators, hospitals, and more.
Swiss cybersecurity office blamed CrowdStrike for the issue.
CrowdStrike's Falcon sensor linked to the issue, used by many major companies.
Issue linked to a misconfiguration or faulty update in CrowdStrike.
Fix found by deleting a file from the CrowdStrike directory in Windows.
CrowdStrike tool works on Linux and Mac OS but only Windows systems crashed.
Concerns about a single system being a single point of failure for major companies.
SUSE Enterprise Linux asks the openSUSE community to stop using the SUSE branding.
OpenSUSE community discussions show agreement with SUSE's demand.
Solus dropping AppArmor and snaps in favor of Flatpaks.
GNOME 47's first alpha release with support for accent colors and improved performance.
Linux kernel 6.10 release with new system call M seal and improved security.
Update to PCSX2, the Playstation 2 emulator, with improved visuals and controller support.
Wine 9.13 release with improvements for command line and ODBC drivers.
Tuxedo Computers, a sponsor, offers Linux pre-installed computers.
Transcripts
hey everyone this is Nick and welcome to
the Linux and open source news show this
week we've got one major piece of news
which is the major outage that started
yesterday and made Millions probably of
Windows PCS blue screen of death without
really letting them recover very easily
and that was all due to a third party
program that also actually runs on Linux
but didn't crash Linux boxes for some
reason who knows what that could be we
also have soua asking the open Souza
Community Dro to Rebrand change their
name and change their logo to be well
not as close to sua as they currently
are and we have a lot of other Linux and
open- Source news and we also have this
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there was a giant it outage on Friday
causing Banks TV broadcasters Airlines
train operators hospitals and basically
every type of company or business or
organization that uses computers to just
stop working for a while the Swiss cyber
security office blamed the crowd strike
for the issue and it was then confirmed
that the issue came from that crowd
strike being a cyber security firm that
provides a product called Falcon sensor
which itself provides realtime
monitoring and protection from cyber
attacks and this thing seems used by a
lot of major companies to try and
protect their software and their servers
the issue seems linked to a
misconfiguration or a faulty update In
Crowd strike which basically made
Windows crash on a blue screen of death
and it just could not reboot easily or
at all after that it basically cost what
I can only assume is billions of dollars
worth of economic cost more than a
thousand flights were cancelled by
various Airlines payment systems were
down for hours some hospitals couldn't
work at all even the freaking Paris
Olympics Games seemed affected now there
was also an outage for Microsoft 365 but
we later learned that this wasn't
specifically due to crowd strike they
had their own problems just as well
other affected Parties By The Crowd
strike problem included Visa Amazon the
911.gov website that handles emergencies
in the US and more now fortunately a fix
was found a few hours after the issue
was first reported you could just delete
a file from the crowd strike directory
in system 32 drivers on Windows and it
just stopped windows from crashing all
the time the problem is you had to
actually have access to the drive and if
you were already in the blue screen of
death configuration chances are you
could not do that without using some
kind of live USB Microsoft also said
rebooting a PC 15 times would fix the
problem uh which apparently it did for
some people crowd strike couldn't push
an update remotely to fix the problem
every system had to be manually fixed
which means hours were lost simply to
make PCS bootable and the real issue
here is that there is one single system
crowd strike in this instance which is
deployed by 60% of Fortune 500 companies
by eight out of the 10 Financial firms
and eight out of the 10 top tech
companies it is a single point of
failure that most major companies have
in common and that's always a bad thing
and it is important to remember that
crowd strik tool works on Linux and Mac
OS but Linux and Mac OS systems just did
not crash with that update it's entirely
a Windows related problem due to a
problem with that software and this
raises two major problems the first one
is that one single system being deployed
on so many computers that has access to
that lower level operating system to the
point where a faulty update will
actually crash the entire OS that's
unacceptable no program should have that
level of access to any operating system
second how badly does your OS have to be
designed if a thirdparty app can publish
an update with one file and this makes
your entire OS unbootable where are the
fail safes the deactivation the safe
modes the recovery partitions whatever
this is just unacceptable I'm not saying
it could never happen on Linux or Mac OS
I'm saying it didn't now Souza the
company behind soua Enterprise Linux
apparently asked the open Souza
Community to stop using the Souza brand
name for their Community Dro now
apparently they have asked very calmly
very nicely there are no threats no
deadlines they just said hey you know
what we would be more at ease if you
could just stop using the Souza branding
because it really links this community
effort with our Enterprise drro and
we're not sure that's how we want things
to go there are still implications to
this demand because obviously if the
open Souza Community doesn't comply or
drags their feet chances are Souza as a
company might withdraw a lot of the
support that they currently offer to
open Souza including infrastructure and
a lot of developer time in the end what
soua wants is for open Souza to stop
using the chameleon and the Souza name
which is reason able Fedora isn't called
open rail for example or open red hat
having a different brand is acceptable
in my opinion it's probably more of a
let's not let our potential customers
think that open soua is just free soua
enterprise Linux kind of thing this is
also compounded by some worries about
the governance of open Souza which
apparently isn't super proactive the
board doesn't really meet often enough
to address the issues a drro faces on a
daily basis it is apparently not
structured well enough to handle this
kind of stuff now reading through the
discussions on open Souza's mailing list
it does look like a lot of prominent
open soua community members are in
agreement with this demand basically the
idea is hey you know what maybe let's
not make so much drama about this and
let's comply with what the community
providing us with so many resources is
asking of us it's kind of a good Common
Sense practice thing and they are within
their every right to demand that of
course some people will paint this as
corpo bad harasses Linux Community but
this is well within Souza's perview to
ask it's their branding and it's their
resources that they're lending or giving
to open Souza to help it grow so I don't
think there's any drama really around
this it's just a nice polite ask from a
company to its Community effort and it
it looks like it might just be followed
now Solus the drro that Rose relatively
Rec recently from its ashes decided that
they would do away with app armor and
snaps app armor being canonical solution
to add security profiles to various apps
and programs it's basically SE Linux
that a lot of other disr use but for
obuntu Solus developers decided to stop
applying the app armor patch sets to
anything other than their current LTS
kernels because apparently it's just too
much work and this in turn means snaps
will be dropped in solos as well because
snaps heavily depend on app armor to run
with solid sandboxing and confinement
and if you don't have up armor on your
drro snaps run with partial confinement
which is not as safe as snaps advertise
themselves to be now the plan for Solus
is to stop supporting snaps entirely in
the future with users encourag to move
to Flat packs instead and it's not an
ideological choice either it is mostly
because it is a lot less maintenance for
the solo steam the app armor patch set
seems pretty gigantic with 60 individual
patches that have to be applied to every
single update of the Linux kernel which
might be very easy for canonical and
their developers but it's probably way
harder to do for a community effort that
doesn't have that much Manpower it also
means that without these patch sets
solos can generate their ISO images on
their own infrastructure which
apparently wasn't possible previously so
in early 2025 solos will no longer
support snaps and will encourage people
to move to either the native soless
packages or two flat packs it's not a
giant drro with a giant user base so
it's not like oh Snaps are dead but it
is an indication that slowly but surely
most distributions are siding with flat
packs or with their own packages and
snaps is slowly being just limited to
auntu gnome 47 has its first First Alpha
out now it's pointed to be a big release
with support for accent colors in the
gnome shell and liit V apps meaning that
all your applications from most other
toolkits will at least share a color it
can also now be compiled with whand only
although this will depend on what your
dis decides to go with Fedora will ship
gnome by default without X11 but
probably most other disos will retain
the X11 session in the install Gom 47
also adds support for VR headsets on
Wayland with the DRM lease protocol it
supports Hardware cursors even with KMS
drivers it implemented the xdg dialogue
protocol to handle how apps display
modal Windows the shell has been
slightly revamped to better work on
smaller or bigger display sizes and gome
software should have better performance
thanks to asynchronous loading gnome 47
also supports persistent remote login
sessions you can also Force the remote
computer to not go into hibernate when
you're logged into it remotely gnome
calls is now ported to gtk4 web has a
few UI improvements and gnome tracker
the thing that indexes all your files
and Powers gnome searches has apparently
been replaced with new modules that
perform better you can already try the
alpha using the gnomos iso it's not a Dr
for daily use it's just for testing but
it looks like it is going to be a pretty
major release obviously I'll cover it in
a dedicated video I think it's on the
18th of September that it's supposed to
come out and this is just the tip of the
iceberg I'm pretty sure feature freeze
is right before the beta stage so we
might see even more stuff Landing in
gome 47 before it has its stable release
which is pretty big now the Linux kernel
6.10 was released over the weekend it
adds a new system call called M seal
that can prevent changes to specific
parts of the memory which should help
with improving security for certain
applications the first that really
supports that and basically the only one
right now is Google Chrome but there are
plans to expand that to other
applications there's a new profiling
subsystem as well to let developers
better identify potential memory leaks
the Linux kernel now also adds encrypted
interactions with the TPM chips most
recent computers have so this thing can
be used reliably and more securely
networking performance should also be
improved as well as Hardware support
with improved sound drivers for some
Asus and Lenovo thinkpads Microsoft
Surface Pro devices should now support
fan profile switching and thermal
sensors as well there's more arm support
as well for specific laptops improved
camera performance and quality for Intel
ipu and MPI cameras and we also have the
usual pstate driver improvements for
Intel and AMD CPUs which should give
better performance and better battery
life for most people there are also
plenty of gaming Hardware improvements
for controllers for handhelds there's
better risk 5 support and better rust
support in the Linux Colonels code base
as well basically it is the usual big
release with tons of improvements for
virtually everyone now depending on your
dis R you might get the update
immediately you might already have it or
you might never get it if you use the
dis that stays to fix colal versions
third party Repose exist for that but
use them at your own risk and let's
finish this with the gaming news first
we've got a big update to pcsx 2 the
Playstation 2 emulator first it should
look much better because they have
ditched the WX widgets toolkit in favor
of cute which is a good choice sdl2 is
now integrated as well and this will let
users configure controllers much more
easily even with autoc controller
mapping plugins have been removed from
the emulator for now but they have added
a library of preconfigured game fixes
you can also save per game
configurations as well and they added
support for retro achievements and who
doesn't love throwing 50 chickens in the
air and hitting them with a grenade all
at once that's always the kind of stuff
you really want to do in a game
especially in an older retro PS2 game
now I'm joking if you like achievements
that's fine I don't understand you but
that's fine and wine 9 13 was also
released this week continuing the big
rewrite of the command. exe engine which
might be very useful for certain install
processes and for various post install
scripts that certain Windows apps use
for people who want to actually use the
Windows command line on Linux I don't
know why but you can and they've also
improved return codes for that so the
commands will actually tell you if they
succeed or not wine also supports odbc
Drive drivers for Windows which is a
driver used by a lot of systems that
need to access databases there were also
22 bugs fixed in this release including
for Photoshop CC 2024 Victoria 2 Guild
Wars 2 The Witcher 3 Assassin's Creed
Revelations and more and it kind of
surprised me to see Photoshop CC 2024 on
this list because I was under the
assumption that photoshop just did not
run at all under why but the buck report
said that the app closes down and
crashes after a little while meaning
that the app actually runs which is very
surprising so I'll have to dig deeper on
that because my understanding was you
cannot run any of the Creative Cloud
Suite with wine right now what you can
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