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Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.
To the „but Linux is complicated“ and the (IMHO weird) new „being able to use Linux is a sign of privilege“ crowd: We just had #Girlsday in our #Munich#RedHat office with 20+ 10-12yr old girls that loved to explore the 10 XO (OLPC - One Laptop Per Child) from 2007(!) running Fedora and the Sugar UI we had them work with. No explanations needed. They had a blast.
It depends on what you're doing with it, but I'd say #Devuan and its parent #Debian should be near the top of your list. I'd also consider #FreeBSD and #DragonflyBSD.
I know that "Debian" is an ancient Sumerian word meaning "old", but when I used the former #CentOS bug-for-bug clone of #Red_Hat #RHEL, its packages were even older. I had to find 3rd party repos that had more-current versions of various libraries and applications. (Examples: I neded newer versions of PHP, php-intl, the internationalization library that php-intl depends upon in order to run almost anything because RHEL freezes the major versions of such software for years.)
Which makes sense when you're paying for stability ... you probably aren't installing current versions of $APPLICATION, so the language in which it is written probably needs to stay old, just with security patches.
Not really. GPL licenced software is still getting lifted and implemented into proprietary projects without paying dividends back to the maintainers that are developing the underlying project.
That is to say nothing of people and their inability to separate their politics from the free and open source projects they participate in, giving rise to a gatekeeping and exclusionary environments through policies intended to promote diversity and inclusion.
xz-Attacke: Hintertür enträtselt, weitere Details zu betroffenen Distros
Experten halten die Hintertür in liblzma für den bis dato ausgeklügeltesten Supplychain-Angriff. Er erlaubt Angreifern, aus der Ferne Kommandos einzuschleusen.
APROPOS OF NOTHING am annoyed with the war of software packaging attrition #Ubuntu & #RedHat have with their snaps and flatpaks.
am, yet again, running all over the web to find an unabandoned PPA because i cannot properly run software that was developed as a .deb but now the only maintained version is encased in docker-like #Linux fuckery.
I think it’s important to remember that if you’re using the excuse that your software project should not be held to account for being inaccessible because it is released under a free software license what you’re really saying is that disabled people are not welcome in the free software world.
Wow, OK, so I wasn’t missing anything. It looks like the only available screen reader on major Linux distributions is broken and has been for some time.
Lack of accessibility not being a show stopper for an operating systems blows my mind.
We’re talking about distributions like Ubuntu and Red Hat Enterprise Linux with enterprise customers (aren’t there some accessibility laws that apply here? 🤔)
Jedes Mal, wenn ich mir ein #RedHat Security Advisory anschaue, denke ich mir: Ihr werdet dafür bezahlt Sicherheitskücken zu schließen, warum macht ihr es nicht?
Regarding #SMTPSmuggling, anyone knows if #Postfix 2.10 is affected? According to #RedHat versions 8 and 9 may be but they're still in investigation and they naturally focus on the more recent versions first. However... #RHEL 7 includes 2.10 and at least smtpd_data_restrictions is a configuration option that is not present... https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2023-51764