I've been thinking lately that what underpinned the FOSS golden age was not actually decentralized VCS and high-quality forges, nor even ZIRP, but rather peacetime.

After a period of branches and patchsets, full national hard forks are going to become de rigeur, and linux-derived OSes across the world are going to bloom necessarily, as we no longer have the kind of ambient trust required to collaborate across borders.

Look forward to Euro-linux, Sino-BSD, and I guess probably some sort of GCC-area build as well.

Patches will be accepted across national boundaries with only the highest scrutiny, which itself will likely be provided by nationalized AI platforms.

Gods I hate this era

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eqvinox 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

It's even worse: the same logic is already starting to fracture the internet at large.

	▲	pixl97 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I mean the capabilities of the internet aren't something you really want to have aimed AT you when you're fighting in a war. The internet grew after the cold war ended and it will change as another cold/hot war starts.

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V__ 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OpenSuse is (or will be) "Euro-Linux".

	▲	nosioptar 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Mageia's also a fine European distro. Suse has more packages in their repo. But, I prefer Mageia's control center to yast.

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gaiagraphia 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is a great thing for innovation though? Nations/blocs protecting their tech interests will result in more jobs to go round in the industry, more unique ideas, and less centalisation, surely?

The globalised, hyper-centralised world is a bit boring, tbh.

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1attice 4 days ago | parent [-]

I forecast that you will not be bored, and may have other, stronger feelings. Ask Ukrainians

	▲	gaiagraphia 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I spent like 20% of my adult life in Ukraine and Russia. They overwhelmingly don't like the globalosed world. Ukraine might be a fashion symbol in the west, but when I was volunteering out there in the first year, the points of view where mainly wanting to be like Poland; not absorbing the values of the wider west.