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Slackware Says No to Age Verification, But Fedora Linux Says Yes


in reply to megagumby

No shock there Fedora is downstream from Red Hat which is owned by IBM.
in reply to slazer2au

yeah, i'm not surprised either, although its kind of sad since i really liked bazzite
in reply to megagumby

Me too. Bazzite has been amazing for me and its sad to hear this. I've heard cachyOS is also really good so I'll probably give that a go
in reply to slazer2au

Isn't Red Hat downstream from Fedora? But I guess it doesn't lessen IBM's influence.
in reply to ISOmorph

Na, Fedora is downstream

github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTim…

in reply to slazer2au

Off-topic, but isn't Fedora technically upstream from RHEL?
in reply to a14o

Na, Fedora is downstream

github.com/FabioLolix/LinuxTim…

in reply to slazer2au

Yeah, nah. That's not how the term up/downstream is used in the context of product streams.

redhat.com/en/blog/what-open-s…

in reply to slazer2au

Yeah, nah. That's not how the term up/downstream is used in the context of product streams.

redhat.com/en/blog/what-open-s…

in reply to a14o

it used to be; but ibm made them change things around to maximize profit potential like they did with ansible.

open source is enshitifying and the labor aristocracy that creates it is mostly aligned with the oligarchy's efforts to squeeze profit out of it.

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in reply to megagumby

shame :( I like Fedora...(It's what I use) these surveillance laws are helping me pick my OS, so that's the bright side
in reply to ᥫ᭡ 𐑖ミꪜᴵ𝔦 ᥫ᭡

I also use Fedora and have been happy with it but this is making me reconsider. I hope they change their mind, or that it somehow doesn't get implemented for whatever reason.
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in reply to megagumby

Fork found in kitchen

This is what FOSS owned by non-profits that work as a facade to tech giants means, you can't have free software if you don't commit to keeping the motives free from shareholders and profits.

in reply to megagumby

Did you have no better source for this than a far-right "anti-woke" shitstain?
in reply to bootleg

Slackware founder Patrick Volkerding linuxquestions.org/questions/s…

"I'll weigh in a little bit here, I guess. At this point, I'd rather not implement something like this and don't see the point of the legislation as written (other than, more than likely, get a foot in the door.) But my code is my speech. I doubt these laws would survive a challenge, as it's pretty clearly government compelled speech.

Any lawyers looking for a test case? :-)"

I can't find anything concrete from Fedora but the Fedora leader was thinking of ways to comply in some manner a month ago and had more ideas recently

A month ago: discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…

More recent: itsfoss.com/news/fedora-leader…

in reply to bootleg

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in reply to megagumby

in reply to bootleg

I doubt ML’ers will do much against you


I'm pretty sure their comments will be removed if they go down in the right wing rabbit hole.

in reply to megagumby

And I don't fucking believe you grew up "super left", unless your overton window has moved so far to the right that you see liberals as "super left".
in reply to megagumby

Damnit, I stopped distro hopping 2 years ago and settled on fedora. Here I go again
in reply to TheOSINTguy

same here and i knew that tying my wagon to the ibm/red-hat corporate train would eventually bite me in the ass.

i hope debian & ubuntu don't go the same way; they're my most likely next hops.

in reply to eldavi

I would not keep up any hopes on Ubuntu. Canonical will comply with any laws
in reply to pound_heap

i suppose that the same would be true of any distro that has live patching capabilities since all those distros are backed by a corporate entity afaik.

there's something to be said about the open source world capitulating to such a degree that we're going to have to regress to older offerings to escape the oligarchical capture that's happening as well as little-to-nothing being said about it's biggest figures silently endorsing this trend.

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in reply to TheOSINTguy

Move to Arch, Debian or Gentoo, the install process hurdles are age verification enough.