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
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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
LMAO
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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"
What's the logic here? That servers used to host files run Linux? Windows systems distribute malware too.
Really hard to guess why, as for some time we had the entire Wikipedia blocked just because of one article
Microsoft probably has a whole team in Turkey to make sure no one accidentally blocks their crap.
That's because Arch is the best, so any additional comparisons are just wasting everyone's time ;-)
A significant number of sites blocked by USOM are blocked after being reported. Either someone reported the site for some unknown reason, or USOM may have blocked it themselves because of a random link within the site (I was once exploring random distributions and then visited the website of a discontinued Chinese distribution out of curiosity and the website was either sold or expired, was full of pornography and gambling ads). Debian based "Pardus" is used in many government agencies and schools so I don't think it's because of malware thing
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 ?
Can someone translate that text?
Here's the Google Lens translation:
Not really shocking