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Russia's Operating System May Be Fedora Based

Posted by timothy on from the if-the-hat-is-red-wear-it dept.

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."

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  1. Re:RED Hat, come on ppl by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Red Flag is based on RHEL, right? So there's not much difference basing it on Fedora.

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  2. Re:Fedora not a good choice by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 0, Troll

    IF I were creating a national distribution and I wanted it to be "Red Hat-compatible" or "Red Hat-like" I would choose CentOS as my starting point, personally.

    If you're worried about having the most open source packages available and easily installable, then I would pick either Debian or one of the Debian-like distros such as Ubuntu as my starting point.

    Or, you could always start from scratch (LFS).

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