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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. RED Hat, come on ppl by cwrinn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, Duh, it's Red. :D

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    Here's a cookie... *psst* it's MAGIC
    1. Re:RED Hat, come on ppl by GreatRedShark · · Score: 5, Funny

      Maybe they'll rename it Red Ushanka! :P

  2. You are kidding arent you? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  3. Re:Keep your head down by daveime · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.