Linux distro Facebook Groups

Posted Jan 27, 2025 19:07 UTC (Mon) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
Parent article: Linux-related discussion as a cybersecurity threat

I believe a large number of Linux distros have Facebook presences. I'm pretty sure Fedora has one... but not being on Facebook myself, I'm not into that. If so, I wonder how Linux distro groups are going to talk about Linux related stuff without using banning terms?

Freex distro Facebook Groups

Posted Jan 27, 2025 22:49 UTC (Mon) by mussell (subscriber, #170320) [Link]

I believe a large number of Linux distros have Facebook presences.

I initially interpreted "Facebook presences" as contributing to distros like what they do with CentOS. In fact, Facebook/Meta is a major contributor to Linux and open source, with 344 changesets and 15114 lines changed in the 6.13 kernel alone. I guess this means not only is Facebook one of the largest developers of so-called malware in the world, but it also infects every server they own. I feel bad for all of their sysadmins since they now need to move everything over to *BSD since that (presumably) is not banned.

To get around the word filter, you could start calling Linux Freex as Linus originally wanted.