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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] 32 points 7 months ago (5 children)

It isn't enforceable on the personal level, but every commercial distro will need an implementation (and let's be honest, they will each create their own) to sell pre-installed or to offer service for public and private device fleets.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    And non-commercial distros?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago*

    Depends if their non-profit is Californian or how deeply the mechanism is embedded into their base distro (if applicable).
    If 0x0@infosec.pub is right and it's done through a simple addition to adduser (and the GUIs) every distro that doesn't actively patch against it, would get it upstream.

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