• Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.org
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    Debian also doesn’t offer security upgrades for contrib and non-free.
    Only main is officially supported.

    Same as Ubuntu, security upgrades for additional repos are handled by the community, not the distro maintainers themselves.

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      Debian also doesn’t offer security upgrades for contrib and non-free. Only main is officially supported.

      So Fedora and openSUSE are most superior. OK.

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        i’m not sure what that has to do with the argument

        (curious, though: does the Fedora project even have an equivalent to universe? I also thought that OBS didn’t have security updates just like the AUR doesn’t.)

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          does the Fedora project even have an equivalent to universe?

          No because all FOSS software distributed by Fedora is in the main repo.

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        No, it’s the same with every distro.
        Distro maintainers CAN’T support repos containing non-free packages with security fixes.
        Because they can’t fix security issues in the code.
        Because the code is not free for them to edit.

        This entire criticism just shows a lack of understanding of how distros work, and what security updates are.

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          Ubuntu Universe does not have licensing issues. Ubuntu’s nonfree repository is Multiverse. Universe is just the community- as opposed to project-maintained one

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            Same thing applies.
            The AUR doesn’t get security updates from Arch,
            RPM Fusion doesn’t get security updates from Fedora,
            Packman doesn’t get security updates from OpenSUSE,
            and Slackbuilds/Alienbob don’t get security updates from Slackware.

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              woelk did make a good point that based on submission processes, Fedora Main is basically their equivalent of Ubuntu Universe, though.