Hi Kevin, On Mon, Dec 27, 2021, at 11:50 AM, Kevin Kofler via devel wrote: > > But being allowed to run custom or self-developed software is a core feature > of Free Software. If that stops working in the name of "security", Fedora is > no better than iOS (where Apple also claims the restrictions are for > "security" purposes), and becomes entirely useless for me.
This blog entry I did a while ago touches on this: https://blog.verbum.org/2019/12/23/starting-from-open-and-foss/ I am obviously speaking for myself there, but I know at least some others on the Fedora CoreOS team agree. It's funny because I have had to near-constantly battle the concept that Fedora CoreOS is somehow out to "restrict" people. Opinionated? Yes. But you can still replace the kernel, build from source, etc. As the blog says, I think the only sane thing to do with file/partition integrity systems like this is to make them supported by Fedora to deploy for custom builds. Now there's a whole huge topic here that it's *really hard* to make a system that is both e.g. an ISO you can stick in and install easily *and* offer the whole toolbox of build (and CI!) tools as a "product" to users. But anyways, it's good that you raise this point and concern, but there's no reason for you to worry. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
