60
Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field
(linuxiac.com)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2026
60 points (74.6% liked)
Linux
15035 readers
242 users here now
A community for everything relating to the GNU/Linux operating system (except the memes!)
Also, check out:
Original icon base courtesy of lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Do they need to do any updates? The point of it was the message, it was never about making a serious OS. It was literally just "we're going to break California law because there isn't shit a single state in the US can do about it".
Also, I thought I read that open source projects were recently exempted, so the point is probably moot now anyway.
It was obviously performative at the time. A lot of bitching and moaning but in the end, it was a nothingburger change that distros could ignore as they do every other field on the user profile in systemD. But they had to make a "distro" to show how serious they were, then ignore it completely.
I said at the time if it were maintained in 90 days I'd eat a bug. Apparently I was off by about 75 days.