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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Stop using gitlab.com for projects - Credit card info required for new registrations (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If your IP (and possible your browser) looks "suspicious" or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source projects without doing so, I do not think any open source project should use this service until they change that.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So no PRs. No Issues. No CI/CD. That doesn't work for 99% of actively developed open source projects with >10 devs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I know project that is developed by 10.00000001 devs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The difficulty of sending patches or reporting issues to the Linux kernel is a feature for them, as it keeps less-experienced devs from wasting maintainer's time with garbage requests. For most projects it's a bug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Linus accepted patch from literal child. But to be fair it was documentation style patch from one of kernel dev's kid.