> making sure you're using an unmodified government approved operating system

Will be interesting to see if this leads to more Linux systems being deployed. Then again with systemd supporting age sniffing (https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/40954), evading this becomes harder and harder.

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egorfine 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Lennart Poettering is here to make sure Linux won't be a safe place for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572

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zahlman 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would it? Such a government would just... not approve Linux, if it interfered with their objectives.

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Klonoar 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Systemd changes don’t make it harder, you control the damn OS at the source code level if you choose.

	▲	M95D an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Theoretically, yes, but Gentoo with all their resources couldn't keep eudev alive. How much free time does one person need to maintain a fork of the entire systemd?

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darkwater 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Evading what exactly? If the age verification is a flag sent by the OS and you are the OS administrator, you can do whatever you want.