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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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[–] Paulemeister@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As long as it's offline I don't see a problem of implementing this. It's a nieche use case, but why not? No program has to use the interface. It does what's on the can: If I have a kid with a user not in wheel, it can install stuff on user level but might be "safe" from programs it is not supposed to use. Are people saying this is a slippery slope?

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Wait... Is this what that notification was about systemd when I upgraded my system just now? Fuck me... Although, if I correctly understand the current state of things, those California laws aren't enforced by systemd. That's up to applications run on top of a systemd system. systemd "just" provides the data point "age". Right?

Regardless, let's hope some of these forks collaborate and consolidate!

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