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Russia's Operating System May Be Fedora Based
Glyn Moody writes "Last month, a story about Russia producing its own national operating system based on GNU/Linux started circulating. Now there's some confirmation, and details of how the plan might be put into practice. Red Hat had a meeting with the Russian communications ministry, which announced that the development of free software in Russia was one of its priorities. One concrete idea they talked about was using the Russian Fedora project as a step towards creating a national operating system."
Russia's Operating System May Be Fedora Based
An upside down fedora will represent a zero and a right side up fedora will represent a one ... we will use state of the art Soviet technology to flip (or "flop") each hat as the program runs ...
Well, Duh, it's Red. :D
Here's a cookie... *psst* it's MAGIC
Source opens you ...
sorry I couldn't resist it.
But why Fedora? Is it because they'd rather be "Dead than Red(Hat)"?
Consider that Raskolnikov was only an outlaw because he believed himself to be such. If he hadn't had the guilty conscience, the authorities never would have caught up with him. They believed that the painters had done the crime, and had the confession to prove it.
But all men who are good at heart love honesty, and though Raskolnikov was able to commit murder, he was unable to maintain the lie which he had constructed.
In much the same vein, Javert was able to break his case against Jean Valjean because though a criminal, Valjean was never the hardened criminal he was portrayed to be.
In short, Russian Linux is likely to suck.
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services?
That sounds preposterous to me.
If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.
Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.
Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.
I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.
Great, Linux was doing so well until it caused the 2nd rise of the USSR.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" Franklin
Fedora != unstable.
"The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike." -- Delos B. McKown
Original content? No, I don't think there will be any of that for this story. There really isn't anything insightful or informative to say. Leaving everyone to come up with some misguided attempt at creating a joke that isn't completely expected.
You know something like
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road
A: Because Russia, a formerly communist nation, has decided to go with a national operating system that forms the basis for a different operating system called Red Hat. And Red is the main color associated with Communism in general. Which makes this joke funny. Also, chickens are in a constant state of motion. They don't really have a set destination in mind, and just wander aimlessly most of the time. So its more of a question of why it wasn't in its coop and what lazy farmer couldn't be bothered to care for his farm animals, than why it an animal with no cognitive power of its own to speak of crossed any kind of a road.
See, not the least bit funny. There should be an editor level feature that only allows for negative moderation on stories. So then the competition amongst the attention seekers would be to see who could write the most bland, non attempt at any horrible run on jokes/memes comments.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
Ushanka.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
I was hoping Russia's OS would be based on not having files :(
except that it kills journalists, right?
Thank you, I'll be here all week!
Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur...
"Force shits upon Reason's back." - Poor Richard's Almanac
rm -rf /political_dissidents
THL phish sticks
In quantum chicken physics, the two states are :-
1) About to cross the road
2) Groaning at the awful punchline
The trick is to try and observe the former state, thus collapsing the waveform so that the latter state cannot happen.
I thought Russia didn't need help, weren't invalids and didn't have limited mental capacity
Well at least not until they open that third lunchtime bottle of vodka ...
Our national OS should be written in Cyrillic letters. Not a single Latin letter or word should be present in the code.
Certainly there should be a possibility to switch to a Latin keyboard, if necessary, but the OS should be in our letters, in our language.
Checkbox humour? I'm glad you asked, you know what I mean like:
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Somehow we got on to Quantum Poultridynamics, Chicken entrail entanglement is interesting however, may lead to a method of predicting future.
Seriously, this article is a masterful slashdot troll!
After logging in slashdot still does not take you back to the page you were on. It's been that way for 20 years.