What if no internet? How set up?
this post was submitted on 02 Mar 2026
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I've always input my age as 1900-01-01 and I can't change that now because that'll show an inconsistency and we can't have that now can we.
Technically, Linux is not an operating system, just a kernel, so I'm not sure how this would be implemented.
You just said it, it's a rule for operating systems, which means that whoever ships Linux as part of an operating system has the onus of implementing this.
If you do Linux from scratch, that would be you I guess.
Linux being a kernel is hardly relevant though. The law lies the responsibility at the "operating system providers", looking at the definition in the article that would be the developers/organisation behind the individual distributions. Politicians don't care if each distro comes up with their own solution or gets built-in to the kernel.
But personally I think they all just give this law the finger, put a 'not for use in California' in their licenses and forget about this brainfart.
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This will not matter to most of linux, it’s non enforceable and easily circumvented.
But the issue is what they used for thumbnail. Steam deck.
Steam is bringing linux to the the masses but they won’t be able to sell any without complying to the part that all apps that can be installed must be able to ask the os to give this data.
Steam already requires your age when you look at m rated games. The only difference is that the age verification is before you get to that page.
Also, the age verification is literally just check a box. Its the less of several evils, but really if I HAVE to verify my age, Id prefer to do it this way
this is not a checkbox, but a date field. and the hard part is, KDE needs to implement it, other desktops need to implement it too, and somehow it has to be fit into the existing linux user database that does not have a dedicated place for information like this.
it also means using older operating systems became illegal, including windows 7, xp, etc. including, if you just happen to have an old unused computer with an OS that does not yet support this thing.
How old is my tomcat user? How about my various docker containers, are those separate OSes?
Your average legislator hears the word "Docker" and imagines a ship unloading cargo. Of course computers on ships need age verification! Voters will appreciate a crackdown on nautical child labor.
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Whoa there sonny! Lots of stuff sharing just one computer? Sounds like communism to me!
Linux from Scratch is a refuge. It would be greatly improved with a package manager.
When I did it I added rpm and apt (and alien). It was a clusterfuck. Good times.