GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GEICO Insurance Company Developing TuxTape - A New Linux Kernel Livepatching Solution

Red Hat's Kpatch, Oracle's Ksplice, and SUSE's kGraft are the most well known solutions currently for Linux kernel live-patching primarily for applying security patches to running Linux servers. It wasn't on my bingo card for insurance giant GEICO working baking their own Linux kernel live-patching solution, but they announced it this weekend and it will soon be open-source...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GEICO-TuxTape-Linux-Livepatch

[Daktyl198]

What a super weird coincidence. I literally just switched from State Farm to Geico today because their rates are way lower for full coverage. And now Geico is contributing a tool to open source? Must be a sign.

[Chugworth]

I guess it was so easy a caveman could do it.

[Quackdoc]

Did you know switching to geico could help you support linux kernel development?

[fermino]

If this is a marketing stunt its definitely working

[Jumbotron]

Did you know switching to geico could help you support linux kernel development?

You win! Here’s the internet !

[Jumbotron]

If Ubuntu were to replace their live patching scheme with GEICO’s TuxTape would that first release to use it be called “Galloping Gecko” ?

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

I hope SUSE contributes to this.

[mrg666]

I hope SUSE contributes to this.

wow! did you create this?

[PeeWee]

It's a bit disappointing that they dismissed Debian's approach instead of contributing. But, given the state that it's in - "infancy" is an overstatement -, I guess they would have had to do everything themselves anyway, and deal with objections from the community on top of that. I just hope that their license will permit inclusion in Debian, as the next best outcome. And, of course, it must be attractive for Debian to include.