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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by pglpm@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

The latest changes implemented in the Systemd repo, related to or prompted by age-verification laws, have made many people unhappy (I suppose links about this aren't necessary). This has led to a surge in Systemd forks during the last days ("surge" because there have always been plenty of forks). Here are some forks that explicitly mention those changes as their reason for forking (rough time ordering taken from the fork page):

Hopefully the energy of this reaction won't be scattered among too many alternatives, although some amount of scattering is always good.

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[-] DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

as far as I read the law, but i am neither a lawyer or even american, are those Option only needed for Systems with users and a user, as defined by the same law, is

(i) “User” means a child that is the primary user of the device.

The law says nothing about Systems that don't have such a "user", or at least i could not find anything.

So, there could be a valid argument that the law does differentiate.

this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2026
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