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An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Apparently this will include Linux...

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[–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Apple and Microsoft are both rather large Linux customers. On desktop, they sell their operating systems, but both of them use a lot of Linux in the enterprise. Apple more so, but Microsoft is no slouch.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    MacOS is FreeBSD under the hood, which would also suffer from this.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    I think that's a bit different. If all desktop OSs are affected by this law, Apple is in no better or worse position than their competitors. The mach kernel that macos is built around would still be available. TBH, I'm not even sure how reliant Apple still is on the mach source. If such a law were to effectively outlaw Linux, it would have massive implications for pretty much every company with a moderate or bigger enterprise footprint.

    There's a shirt that you could buy where a kid is asking his dad what clouds are made of. Dad replies, "Linux servers, mostly." It's no less true today than it was then.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    It's not the kernel, which is their own work for a long time now. It's the userland utils, which are almost entirely taken from FreeBSD and track that project.

    Although BSD utils are updated at a glacial pace, so it probably wouldn't be much work for Apple to do that themselves.

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