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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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Systemd preparing to comply with age verification laws (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by skyline2@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Fork time? Maybe all the anti-systemd zealots were right all along...

Edit: To address whether it is likely that this change will affect users: Gnome is planning a stronger dependence on userdb, the part of systemd where this change is being implemented. https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2025/06/10/gnome-systemd-dependencies/

Final Edit: The PR has been merged into main.

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[–] turbule@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Time to move to Guix !

https://guix.gnu.org/

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Has the lack of software ecosystem improved much lately?

[–] Qwel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Kinda. What I want is there now (niri, helix, relatively recent Gnome apps, librewolf), but it's not Nix. If you want the latest wlroots bling, it's likely not packaged. The guix pull time has not gotten better, it actually feels worse than I remember.

[–] SockOlm@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the last time I looked at this it was at like 17k, if I remember correctly.

I cant speak much on if it actually got better, but I didnt have any issues with things missing.

Also 30k is more than most distros have in their package managers, gentoo has about 20k for reference

[–] SockOlm@hexbear.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

also these numbers are kind of hard to compare, guix probably has like 100s of emacs plugins in its repos that are counted as seperate packages

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah I'm more concerned about whether it has what I actually want. Which when I used it over a year ago it was missing tons of programs I use (both first and third party channels) and Nix was not. Although it's nice to see that Niri and Helix are packaged now. Other aspect is the flake ecosystem, where Nix has flakes for things like styling, security hardening, etc whereas Guix didn't seem to have a flake-like implementation at all. Although at least it's an alternative if systemd really goes to shit.