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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

BTW, I use Arch.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If it was Arch you'd update once every 15 minutes whether anything's broken or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I use Tumbleweed, so I only get updates once/day, twice if something explodes. I used to use Arch, so my update cycle has lengthened from 1-2x/day to 1-2x/week, which is so much better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

gets two update notifications

Ah, must be explosion Wednesday

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I really like the tumbleweed method, seems like the best compromise between arch and debian style updates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I think a lot of what (open)SUSE does is pretty solid. For example, microOS is a fantastic compromise between a stable base and a rolling userspace, and I think a lot of people would do well to switch to it from Leap. I currently use Leap for my NAS, but I do plan to switch to microOS.