systemd
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has rejected a proposal to centralize per-user environment variables under systemd for Fedora 45. Contributor Faeiz Mahrus suggested moving from shell-specific RC files to systemd's environment-generator for better cross-shell compatibility. The vote saw six members against and three abstentions, citing concerns over systemd-less environments like containers.
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Dylan M. Taylor, a longtime open source contributor, added an optional birthDate field to systemd's user database to help Linux distributions comply with US state age verification laws. The change sparked intense controversy in the Linux community, leading to harassment and death threats against Taylor. In an interview, he defended the addition as simple attestation rather than verification.