Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.

  • lemmyvore
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    21 year ago

    It’s an interesting hobby if you get into it. There are hundreds of variations when you count things like distributions, desktop environments and so on, but there’s only a few core mainstream “families” where you get down to it. For something like an old Chromebook it’s basically decided for you since there’s only specific variants made for it.

    • @SalamendaciousOP
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      11 year ago

      Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of hardware to even put Linux on. Talking with the users on the other post piqued my curiosity a little. We’ll see. Thanks for clearing some stuff up for me.

      • lemmyvore
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        21 year ago

        Oh I just mean from the point of view of someone who’s never tried it before. Lots of people arrive at Linux through indirect fields (pc building, self-hosting, gaming etc.) If it somehow turns into a career down the road all the better.