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openSUSE LinuxWant to learn #Linux on #mainframes? Join #openSUSE, #Fedora & others for a #zSystems workshop tomorrow, March 31 at 17:00 UTC! Hands-on with s390-tools, zFCP, DASD, networking, and free #LinuxONE VMs. Everyone welcome! meet.opensuse.org/s390x https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/OTMKK7ZBIZPXWT6A3KZDL4ATBB6AWTPO/
JdeBPIt concerns #AlpineLinux the same as it concerns every other Linux-based operating system that has a package management utility that talks to a public WWW site.
As I said at https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116156019252249071, and as @RunxiYu has also said, the statute as written covers all such systems. (It's an Act now, by the way, not a Bill.) Alpine Linux has a covered application store.
Here, for example, is what 'publicly available internet website' apk as the 'software application' uses to 'facilitate the download' of the third-party rustc 'application' from the 'store' in Alpine Linux on the aforementioned #mainframes used by the aforementioned naughty 16-year-olds in #California:
https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main/s390x/
Yes, #CaliforniaLaw as written is this expansive. Yes, the legislators did not even consider how the BSDs and Linux-based operating systems work. None of the objectors apparently even mentioned how these work.
The definitions are broad, so to quite an extent they would. There are users, who have accounts, on general purpose computers, and run applications.
The only hope for #mainframes seems to be that they likely don't have things that fit the definition of a 'covered application store'.
But they might; especially if the mainframe is nowadays running a Linux-based operating system.
http://linuxvm.org/info/distros.html
#Debian and #Ubuntu have package repositories for s390x, for example. Such a repository is a 'publicly available internet website […] that distributes and facilitates the download of applications'.
Here's one way how the naughty 16-year-olds in #California would download rustc onto such a mainframe with no #AgeVerification, for example:
Algernon D'AmmassaHilarious sentence from Josh Tyrangiel in an essay for the March Atlantic:
“Mainframes are like Christopher Walken: They’ve been going nonstop since the 1960s, they’re fantastic at performing peculiar roles (processing payment payments, safeguarding data), and nobody alive really understands how they work.”
#TheAtlantic #mainframes #mainframe #computers #ChristopherWalken
ClaudioMA fresh look at #IBM3270 Information Display Systems. 
#IBM #mainframes #VintageComputing
https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-fresh-look-at-ibm-3270-information-display-system
PypeBrosrecovered an old sketch (2011 ?) of a floppy character. although not as cute as the one in #MainFrames
Kevin Karhan 
@ghul @jti42 @pkal @landley precisely!
Besides: All those big corpos contributing don't do so out of kindness either, but because none of them want to cough up way more money for a #CCSS alternative like Wind River #VxWorks, #Oracle #Solaris or god forbid #IBM #zArchitecture #Mainframes!
- #Android will need to have a #Community #Fork unless #Google instantly and retroactively revers their "#Developer #Verification" bs even for non-#GooglePlay #Apps!
VTK MAGAZINELords of COBOL: unser Bankensystem ist 1959 steckengeblieben
Die 50er haben angerufen und wollen ihren Code zurück #COBOL #Banken #Mainframes #Legacyhttps://vampyres.tk/lifestyle/lords-of-cobol-unser-bankensystem-ist-1959-steckengeblieben/
Chris MaestroDie 50er haben angerufen und wollen ihren Code zurück #COBOL #Banken #Mainframes #Legacy