• Successful_Try543@feddit.de
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    8 months ago

    AfaIk that’s not entirely true, e.g. Debian is changing the system time from 32 bit integer to 64 bit. Thus I assume other distros do this as well. However, this does not help for industrial or IOT devices running deprecated Unix / Linux derivatives.

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      8 months ago

      industrial or IOT devices running deprecated Unix / Linux derivatives

      This is my concern, all the embedded devices happily running in underground systems like pipes and cables. I assume there are at least a few which nobody even considered patching because they’ve “just worked” for decades!

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          They do at least get updates though, and they’re big enough that they don’t get forgotten!