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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. Prominent US insurance company GEICO has been working on TuxTape as a new Linux kernel livepatching toolkit. Current open-source solutions like Gentoo elivepatch are no longer active and Debian's linux-livepatching is still getting off the ground.

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