2.5 Admins 246: Perpetual Hotpatch

Late Night Linux Family All Episodes · May 8, 2025 · 30m

Old passwords work for Windows RDP, Broadcom shows why perpetual software licenses aren’t really forever, Windows Server is getting hotpatching, and preventing changes to archived files.

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