Nobody likes to talk about how almost everything is blocked from Iran. Not just as of late, but for years.
sanctioning intellectual resources and knowledge really must be illegal. I can understand it for proprietary things. But FOSS stuff being unavailable? That is pure hypocrisie.
“No you’re from a bad country you’re not allowed to learn”
Damn, I didn’t know Fedora was a geo-political tool :-(
Too little too late. I left Fedora back i ~2006ish when they were interrogating people over the IRC support channels about their nationality before even deigning answer questions about links to official downloads or official distro documentation. They have always been racists and will always be, as they are condemned to suck the corporate tit.
Site is currently down (undergoing maintenance). What does this even mean? a forum for Syria specifically? a mirror?
If this is a forum or the like shouldn’t it be an Arabic / middle eastern forum? that would make more sense
The site works for me. This is the actual news:
Last week, the Fedora Infrastructure Team lifted the IP range block on IP addresses in Syria. This action restores download access to Fedora Linux deliverables, such as ISOs. It also restores access from Syria to Fedora Linux RPM repositories, the Fedora Account System, and Fedora build systems. Users can now access the various applications and services that make up the Fedora Project.
Oh, thanks. The site is back online.
This is good news, but the title makes it seem a lot more interesting than it is. Everyone here already uses VPNs for everything, 'cause it’s all banned.
This is weird though, because other distros like Arch, Debian, and their derivatives (even corporate ones (e.g. Manjaro)) were working fine. Even Flathub didn’t require a VPN. isn’t that hosted by Red Hat too?
