• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    Debian also doesn’t offer security upgrades for contrib and non-free. Only main is officially supported.

    So Fedora and openSUSE are most superior. OK.

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      53 minutes ago

      i’m not sure what that has to do with the argument

      (curious, though: does the Fedora project even have an equivalent to universe? I also thought that OBS didn’t have security updates just like the AUR doesn’t.)

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        52 minutes ago

        does the Fedora project even have an equivalent to universe?

        No because all FOSS software distributed by Fedora is in the main repo.

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      51 minutes ago

      No, it’s the same with every distro.
      Distro maintainers CAN’T support repos containing non-free packages with security fixes.
      Because they can’t fix security issues in the code.
      Because the code is not free for them to edit.

      This entire criticism just shows a lack of understanding of how distros work, and what security updates are.

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        52 minutes ago

        Ubuntu Universe does not have licensing issues. Ubuntu’s nonfree repository is Multiverse. Universe is just the community- as opposed to project-maintained one

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          Same thing applies.
          The AUR doesn’t get security updates from Arch,
          RPM Fusion doesn’t get security updates from Fedora,
          Packman doesn’t get security updates from OpenSUSE,
          and Slackbuilds/Alienbob don’t get security updates from Slackware.