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It is possible that it is related to how Turkey has been flagging Linux software as malware.

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[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 123 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why turkey is flagging linux as malware????? lmao

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 104 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago
[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Fair.

Good guy Turkey?

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

DW ranking 🤝 Eurovision jury votes

[–] choroalp@programming.dev 98 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm almost 50 and I surely know about modern tech and FOSS. Age is not the problem here. Ignorance is.

[–] Bogasse@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago

Yeah, people who built those modern technologies are mostly over 50, I suppose.

[–] Bitrot@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The government also supports Pardus, but different departments I’m sure. I always thought their independent projects looked pretty neat.

[–] choroalp@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Differsnt departments with no knowledge transfer

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago

yazılım can translate to programming or writings.

source : am turkish. this is bullshit. wikipedia was also banned for fucking ages

[–] canpolat@programming.dev 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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".

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

Arent most linux distros in DistroWatch open source thus mitigating the malware risk by a ton?

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 29 points 1 year ago

That's because Arch is the best, so any additional comparisons are just wasting everyone's time ;-)

[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

Lol wuttttt

[–] jak2k@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Has been like this for month

[–] dotslashme 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

They'll probably roll it back soon. The bureucrats do crazy stuff from time to time.. Turkish Gov is very pro-Linux.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

Why DistroWatch ? Are Linux news sites and Linux download sites also blocked ?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

Spreading malware? It doesn't host any distros... what are they talking about?

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[–] deathmetal27@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone translate that text?

[–] SteveTech@programming.dev 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here's the Google Lens translation: 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"

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 year ago

Not really shocking