It depends what they want to do. They can fork and take on the burden of maintaining the whole tree in which case good luck with that, linux is too much of a fire hose to enable a 3rd party to assemble something similar making different choices about what they merge. Otherwise they can maintain a re-based fork that tracks the Torvalds tree and then congratulations you’ve just invented a feature tree that can do contribution with extra steps.
With blackjack and hookers?
And vodka too! Remember russians are whores and drunks!!! Amirite?!??!! lolollolloolo!! \s
Olde Fortran Malt Liquor would be a better fit for my joke. It’s ok that you didn’t get it.
Seems like a good fit for the Linux community really. They’re not exactly known for being buttoned down.
Please base russian linux on Hannah Montana linux.
Why not Red Star OS? They can take North Korean soldiers but not their software?
Russian government officials trying to get away from windows, eh?
Astra (used in MIC) is outdated shit, RED OS (more commercial) is cooler and wine’d in a lot of our windows-oriented apps, but both would have a hard time without international community if threatened.
That’s just some figureheads shitting with their mouths. There are millions of machines still running Windows with no way to change without a pushback from users and admins, and also some Linux machines that would only suffer if we branch out.
North Korea did this already. I expect that Russia’s effort will be as good if not better. Bonus comedy points if they use NK’s effort as a starting point.
But I wouldn’t try to use it if my Internet location was outside Russia. Or maybe even if it wasn’t.
Also: something something falling out something something Windows.
I’m not gonna use this shit regardless. Even if it remains the only option for an OS in Russia, I’m gonna fucking smuggle a proper Linux distro in.
In before you’re going to need a telemetry spoofer in order not to attract attention. On the other hand, it takes an extraordinary amount of government paranoia before they start going after random citizens.
Somebody once was showing me a modified version of Windows XP and I’m sure it was a North Korean version. But I can’t find it now.
When it fails I’m gonna laugh a lot.
I mean, they can just pull the current kernel, add a few patches and say it’s their kernel.
Let’s be honest, cold war brought the space race, if this war brings the “year of Linux” race I’m not going to complain
That’s IF the would be even able to pull the kernel. I know how government grants work here. 70% chance that the money gets stolen and work is outsourced to some bloke who doesn’t know what git is.
The fact that the Russian government came out this fast and said they need a version with their own commits is, perhaps, telling.
…with blyatjack and hookers!
