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[–] [email protected] 73 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Still far better than a proprietary kernel made by a tech corp, carried hardly changed from release to release, even fewer people maintain, and if they do they might well be adding a backdoor themselves for their government agency friends.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

true, opensource can be flawed, but it's certain less flawed than a closed source alternatives

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Exactly.