Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers
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“It is important to create conditions for cooperation, which can help develop a unique product,” Russia's digital ministry said in response to 11 developers being delisted from maintaining the Linux kernel.
  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    19 hours ago

    Go go, crablang nijigenerate redot MotherRussiaOS!!!

    Special mention to all the hateforks created due to “valid concerns over code of conducts potentially banning white men from contribution” - a friend of mine had to clean up a state project that used such a hate fork that got terribly left behind.

  • RxBrad@infosec.pubEnglish
    432·
    2 days ago

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

  • palordrolap@fedia.io
    431·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • ma1w4re@lemm.eeEnglish
      151·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        52·
        2 days ago

        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.

    • potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fishEnglish
      51·
      2 days ago

      I imagine Russia will do far better because they are not completely isolated from the rest of the world like North Korea.

      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 days ago

        And they have a much more literate and especially tech literate population. And way more money than NK.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      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.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5010·
    3 days ago

    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? 🤣

  • Alex@lemmy.mlEnglish
    19·
    3 days ago

    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.

  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    248·
    1 day ago

    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

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    175·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      23·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
        52·
        2 days 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.

        • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          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.

          • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.oneEnglish
            12·
            2 days 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.

            • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              How do I know that the soldiers get Windows laptops?

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

    • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
      62·
      2 days ago

      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

      • ma1w4re@lemm.eeEnglish
        32·
        2 days ago

        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.