The amount of advertising for this tool in recent times is starting to look a lot like astroturfing.
The amount of advertising for this tool in recent times is starting to look a lot like astroturfing.
Not my post btw, just sharing the link :)
Sorry for the reddit link, I don’t know of a mirror. This was posted just today, running on an EeePC:
The binaries in question are various GNU and FOSS tools from elsewhere, not part of the Ventoy project itself. So no, the Ventoy author does not own the copyright of the tools in question.
So your approach to security is that you cross your fingers and hope?
Ventoy has a lot of work to do if they want to earn our trust:
Remove BLOBs from the source tree #2795
This ticket has been open now for 5 months with no engagement from the maintainer.
Your install media and anything that modifies your EFI partition or UEFI firmware settings needs to be the most trusted part of your system. And here is Ventoy, a tool that looks open source and then includes a large number of binary blobs in its repository, with no indication of how they were compiled. This is horrible security practice and for me that’s enough for me to never use it.
You can also see a discussion on the subject on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40689629
A much better alternative, if you want a multi-boot USB, is GLIM: https://github.com/thias/glim
It’s just a collection of Grub configs, so very simple and easy to audit.
From my understanding, a lot of code in the graphics drivers is special-case handling for specific games to optimize for the way that the game uses the APIs. Is this correct?
In which case it would make sense to have the game-specific code loaded dynamically when that game is launched, since 99.99% of the game specific code will be for games that the user never runs.
You can’t improve on perfection.
I used Ubuntu from version 8.04 to 18.04 and not once did I have a successful upgrade between major versions. There is always something that gets broken to the point that a reinstall is necessary.
Got a link to that?
Can’t wait to read about it telling someone to put glue on pizza.
Is there something significant about this release, or are we just going to have a post every time every piece of software releases a new version?
Discussed yesterday in !opensource@lemmy.ml:
Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months