• palordrolap@fedia.io
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    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.

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    The fact that the Russian government came out this fast and said they need a version with their own commits is, perhaps, telling.

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    It will work just like every other Russian knock-off thing that gets made. Very shittily, and then end up in the bin.

    Aren’t they still also trying to make their own Steam? 🤣

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    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.

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    A special forking operation will be underway. The new kernel will be complete in just a few days, like the inva- er… denazification of Kyi- er… Kiev.

    E: lol, fuck off to the frontline and die for mother Ruzzia, tankies

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    They’re just jumping the newscycle for the propaganda machine. Russian government doesn’t care about tech or linux unless it can help them deliver more bombs to Ukrainian babies and you don’t need to fork the kernel for that.

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      Pretty much no military in the world cares about Linux because you want an OS system that millions of people are familiar with, require no additional onboarding process, and has decades worth of documentation and trouble fixers.

      Microsoft have always produced stripped down locked down versions of Windows for them so there’s really no reason for them to care about any of Microsoft’s BS in the communal space.

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        1 year ago

        An air-gapped FreeBSD os is significantly more stable and more secure than a commercially available os used globally. Security is more important to militaries than the fucking end user experience.

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          A gapped anything is going to be more secure than anything connected to the network. But if any I don’t see what the operating system has to do with it.

          Anyway that’s not really what I’m talking about, the laptops that are given out to soldiers in the field are windows laptops not Linux.

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            1 year ago

            How do you know this? Apologies, but I’m not going to believe a rando internet person’s comment and take it as fact at face value.

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              1 year ago

              How do I know that the soldiers get Windows laptops?

              Because they do? They get Windows laptops. They don’t get Linux laptops.

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      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

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    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.