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		phatfish on July 19, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Major Microsoft 365 outage caused by Azure configu... Microsoft should have a certification program for software that messes around with kernel modules that could cause a BSOD. I guess they already do this for hardware drivers. Once software is effecting a certain number of endpoints the vendor has to prove they are testing sufficiently.

ensignavenger on July 19, 2024 [–]

I would strongly oppose such restrictions. Of course I use Linux so I can install whatever kernel.modules I want to and no one can stop me :)

philistine on July 19, 2024 | [–]

Hot take, but I think you should build from source to be able to modify the kernel. Kernel extensions don't have their place in our modern world.

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