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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Our family mail server quit working today. Maybe it's a bit long in the tooth... (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Apparently I installed that thing in 2006 and I last updated it in 2016, then I quit updating it for some reason that I totally forgot. Probably laziness...

It's been running for quite some time and we kind of forgot about it in the closet, until the SSH tunnel we use to get our mail outside our home stopped working because modern openssh clients refuse to use the antiquated key cipher I setup client machines with way back when any longer.

I just generated new keys with a more modern cipher that it understands (ecdsa-sha2-nistp256) and left it running. Because why not 🙂

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[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 139 points 2 months ago (31 children)

Because why not 🙂

Because security.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (21 children)

It's behind a firewall. The only thing exposed to the outside is port 22 - and only pubkey login too.

And gee dude... It's been running for 18 years without being pwned 🙂

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 98 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It hasnt been pwned so far

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago

For that matter, it hasn't been ransomwared. There are so many ways to hide a compromise.

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