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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).

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Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Comments do drastically differ between .ml and .world. On .ml, you'll see more sympathy towards Russia and China.

But the issue on hand is way bigger than that. It's importance is not in Russia getting sanctioned somewhere else - it's in the destruction of openness and trust in the open-source community, which has far more reaching consequences. What has been done is pretty unprecedented - and dangerous.

And I'm surprised other Linux communities are silent on the matter.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't stress how much the western supremacists are off the rails on this one: agreeing with the standard sanctions policy commonly used by the US, of punishing entire civilian populations based on the actions of their government, regardless of how you feel about that government and its actions.

Code is code, the nationality of the person shouldn't be used to exclude them. ppl know how most of us here feel about Israel but I would never even think of excluding an Israeli contributor to any of the projects I work on.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Are they excluding contributions or maintainer status?