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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 10 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] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It is not trivial to host a git forge with modern features that allows easy collaboration between anonymous users all over the world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Git forge?
Just git. Git command line.
It's about as trivial as setting up an Apache server.
The anonymous users part is maybe two lines in a config file.
The features are almost entirely part of the front-end, which is entirely up to each individual end-user.
Do you have a web server? You're already 95% of the way there. A workplace was mentioned in other replies, which likely means this infrastructure is already in place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 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

[–] uis 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I know project that is developed by 10.00000001 devs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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.

[–] uis 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] uis 1 points 10 months ago

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