DistroWatch has been banned in Turkey
DistroWatch has been banned in Turkey
It is possible that it is related to how Turkey has been flagging Linux software as malware.
why turkey is flagging linux as malware????? lmao
Probably the sysadmin in Turkey just didn't think the distrowatch ranking system was fair, and they were tired of pretending like people actually use MXLinux
LMAO
DW ranking 🤝 Eurovision jury votes
LMAO
Fair.
Good guy Turkey?
LMAO
I am turkish and i can say due go how fucking Technologically illiterate our goverment is, Distro watch is probably got banned automatically because Free Software -> Piracy. Most tech related at goverment jobs have people over 50+ That does not know how nodern technology works. I am suprised that they know what free means
I'm almost 50 and I surely know about modern tech and FOSS. Age is not the problem here. Ignorance is.
Yeah, people who built those modern technologies are mostly over 50, I suppose.
The government also supports Pardus, but different departments I’m sure. I always thought their independent projects looked pretty neat.
Differsnt departments with no knowledge transfer
yazılım can translate to programming or writings.
source : am turkish. this is bullshit. wikipedia was also banned for fucking ages
Here is the link to the original website (an NGO that monitors blocked websites in Turkey): https://ifade.org.tr/engelliweb/distrowatch-erisime-engelledi/
And here is the Google translation of the text on that page:
The IP address of the DistroWatch platform, which provides news, reviews, rankings and general information about Linux distributions, was blocked by the National Cyber Incident Response Center (USOM) on the grounds of "IP hosting/spreading malware".
Arent most linux distros in DistroWatch open source thus mitigating the malware risk by a ton?
It is possible that it is related to how Turkey has been flagging Linux software as malware.
Do you have any more context on this? A quick search showed someone saying the same thing on Reddit, but I haven't seen any actual sources saying this.
According to USOM IP lookup it's blocked because of "hosting or distributing malware"
That's because Arch is the best, so any additional comparisons are just wasting everyone's time ;-)
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Lol wuttttt
Has been like this for month
At first I thought it may have been because of this CVE, but if it has been like that for a month, then it's something else.
They'll probably roll it back soon. The bureucrats do crazy stuff from time to time.. Turkish Gov is very pro-Linux.
Why DistroWatch ? Are Linux news sites and Linux download sites also blocked ?
Spreading malware? It doesn't host any distros... what are they talking about?
Not really shocking
Let me guess: “piracy” or “national security”
