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."

Comments

Too perfect that it's based on RED Hat.

[Nimey]

Don't know why they'd pick the unstable beta distro to do it, though. Ought to use the Russian version of CentOS or Ubuntu LTS.

Re:You are kidding arent you?

[UberMorlock]

I'm certain you earned a whooooosh.

Re:It's Simple Really

[El Lobo]

Now, jokes aside, a "national OS", whatever it is, is always a terrible idea. I've lived in Russia from 1988 to 2003, and I know the russian idiosyncrasy, and especially, the russian organs of powers and bureaucracy so well, that I'd be damed if this will not turn up to be just another dictatorial directive: only the "Russian OS" should be used at schools and educational institutions. Only the "Russian OS" must be officially supported in governmental offices. Only the "Russian OS" should be.-.. etc.

Now , whatever this OS is based on, that kind of "official" monopoly is NEVER a good idea. A standard is one thing. An *imposed* standard by the government is just too much.

Re:But... why?

[symbolset]

The US. It's called "Windows".

Re:It's Simple Really

[fireman sam]

I think one benefit would be not giving money to a foreign company.