Linux

48331 readers

718 users here now

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

Rules

Posts must be relevant to operating systems running the Linux kernel. GNU/Linux or otherwise.
No misinformation
No NSFW content
No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

Community icon by Alpár-Etele Méder, licensed under CC BY 3.0

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

461

Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

123 comments fedilink hide all child comments

If your IP (and possible your browser) looks "suspicious" or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source projects without doing so, I do not think any open source project should use this service until they change that.

Screenshot: https://i.ibb.co/XsfcfHf/gitlab.png

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

I prefer to follow strict definitions when possible. OSI open source definition and FSF definition of free software in this case.

Also I'm not ready to throw away all software that companies you mentioned conributed to. Did you do this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Also I'm not ready to throw away all software that companies you mentioned conributed to. Did you do this?

If you want to avoid software from Google and Meta, you'll need to avoid pretty important parts of the Linux kernel as well as pretty much anything that does hashing or compression (given Google's involvement with WebP and Brotli, and Meta's involvement with btrfs, zstd, xxhash64, cgroup2, etc)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Not only kernel, but also many widely used libraries. Including compiler runtimes.