Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. (therecord.media)
from Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 13:10
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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 13:15 next collapse

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? 🤣

ChicoSuave@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 15:37 collapse

It will end up like every other Russian knock-off: made by the Chinese when Russia eventually gives up

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 15:54 next collapse

Nah, it goes WAY back to pre-WW2. Russia basically made copying everyone else’s technology a major economic driver for them for decades, and it was all based around trying to sucker poorer countries into buying their awful products.

Cameras, radios, cars, weapons. Hell they even stole NASA Space Shuttle designs and tech to build their own, which just ended up in a junkyard.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 2024 16:14 collapse

And the Buran system was more impressive than the shuttle, capable of completely automated flight!

Buelldozer@lemmy.today on 29 Oct 2024 16:51 next collapse

Oh? Which test flight demonstrated that?

just_another_person@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 17:00 next collapse

I don’t think it was ever confirmed. They only flew the thing once, which was confirmed. Anything else claiming superior tech I’d call USSR propaganda.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 2024 17:10 collapse

I’m not sure whether the orbital flight counts as test or operational, but that one. The prior test flights only had automated landings.

echodot@feddit.uk on 29 Oct 2024 19:09 collapse

So they say but since it never even went into space it’s a bold claim.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 2024 21:12 next collapse

I’m reading that it orbited at an altitude of up to 263 km, well above the Karman line. Is that not space?

echodot@feddit.uk on 30 Oct 2024 14:51 collapse

Well that’s debatable but really the point is it never did a re-entry so we really don’t know how reusable it would have been.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 30 Oct 2024 15:58 collapse

If it didn’t do a reentry, how did it get down from that altitude?

echodot@feddit.uk on 30 Oct 2024 17:50 collapse

By landing?

Reentry doesn’t mean flying downwards it means actually coming in at a high enough speed to generate heating. Otherwise it’s just falling.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 30 Oct 2024 18:25 collapse

I’m pretty sure any reentry from orbit is going to involve high enough speeds to generate heating.

SupraMario@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 03:26 collapse

It’s just like their foxbat claims…turned out it was a flying brick.

Edit: apparently I pissed off some tankies lol

It’s well known that the foxbat was heavily exaggerated in its capabilities. It’s how we ended up with the f15 and it’s insane capabilities. Just like now russia fighting in Ukraine, paper tiger.

echodot@feddit.uk on 29 Oct 2024 19:08 collapse

Of course everything’s made by China anyway including all the high-end stuff. The exception being computer chips.

n3cr0@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 13:21 next collapse

Will they pay cheap developers with vodka?

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 29 Oct 2024 13:47 collapse

Naw they Will just toss them in the gulag and force them to code.

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 13:24 next collapse

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

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 13:31 next collapse

With blackjack and hookers?

PlasticExistence@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 13:39 next collapse

That’s just standard in Russia

ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 13:54 next collapse

And vodka. Soooooo much vodka!

InverseParallax@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 14:07 next collapse

Their version of pre-natal vitamins.

[deleted] on 29 Oct 2024 15:15 next collapse

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[deleted] on 29 Oct 2024 15:15 next collapse

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works on 29 Oct 2024 18:45 collapse

Not sure if they’re aware, but the Balmer Peak occurs at a fairly specific BAC/intoxication level, and output quality drops off significantly after that point.

echodot@feddit.uk on 29 Oct 2024 19:00 next collapse

I’m pretty certain it also depends on the type of alcohol being drunk. If you’re sipping expensive whiskey you start to decide that 8 GB of RAM is a lot.

kender242@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 19:37 collapse

+1 for xkcd

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 29 Oct 2024 15:16 next collapse

And vodka too! Remember russians are whores and drunks!!! Amirite?!??!! lolollolloolo!! \s

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 15:48 next collapse

Olde Fortran Malt Liquor would be a better fit for my joke. It’s ok that you didn’t get it.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 2024 16:12 collapse

Baby, I’m 40% malt liquor! flaming belch

echodot@feddit.uk on 29 Oct 2024 19:02 next collapse

Seems like a good fit for the Linux community really. They’re not exactly known for being buttoned down.

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 11:42 collapse

I don’t know why you’re trying to imply the “blackjack and hookers” Futurama joke that we see all the time in response to stories like this is some kind of xenophobic statement.

Trying that hard to be offended all the time must be exhausting.

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world on 31 Oct 2024 11:03 collapse

Funny thing is, I was thinking about writing my own text editor that is not a web application running in chromium, and wanted to name it “Blackjack”.

kokesh@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 13:46 next collapse

Vladux 0.1 codename Brezhnev

stsquad@lemmy.ml on 29 Oct 2024 13:55 next collapse

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.

palordrolap@fedia.io on 29 Oct 2024 14:04 next collapse

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.

partial_accumen@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 15:09 next collapse

It might be interesting to set up a Russia Linux box as a honeypot.

ma1w4re@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 2024 16:09 next collapse

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 on 29 Oct 2024 18:33 collapse

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.

echodot@feddit.uk on 29 Oct 2024 19:03 next collapse

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.

potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish on 30 Oct 2024 01:12 collapse

Could it be like this? Archive.org ISO

potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish on 30 Oct 2024 01:08 collapse

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

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 11:43 collapse

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

mEEGal@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 14:09 next collapse

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RandomStickman@fedia.io on 29 Oct 2024 14:41 next collapse

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catloaf@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 2024 22:12 collapse

Ah, they’re doing it all for the nookeyas

Toofpic@feddit.dk on 29 Oct 2024 22:25 collapse

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WagnasT@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 14:13 next collapse

Russian government officials trying to get away from windows, eh?

mEEGal@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 17:04 collapse

нанана иiсе оие !

шнеяе уоця аddяеss ?

RobotZap10000@feddit.nl on 29 Oct 2024 19:44 collapse

nanana eeice oeee !

shneyae oootsya addyaess ?

potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish on 30 Oct 2024 01:17 collapse

хахаха нисе оне !

вэрэ ис ыоуp аддресс ?

drmoose@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 15:00 next collapse

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.

echodot@feddit.uk on 29 Oct 2024 19:06 collapse

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.one on 30 Oct 2024 03:28 collapse

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.

nforminvasion@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 11:58 next collapse

Wouldn’t openbsd absolutely take the cake then? Freaking OS is more secure than a vault

echodot@feddit.uk on 30 Oct 2024 14:49 collapse

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.one on 30 Oct 2024 15:51 collapse

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.

echodot@feddit.uk on 30 Oct 2024 17:51 collapse

How do I know that the soldiers get Windows laptops?

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

BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one on 31 Oct 2024 00:48 collapse

Piss poor dodge of answering the simple question.

If anyone is reading this thread, unless echodot@feddit.uk provides some sort of evidence, don’t believe what they say, ever.

DrDystopia@lemy.lol on 29 Oct 2024 16:01 next collapse

Please base russian linux on Hannah Montana linux.

ramenshaman@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 17:57 next collapse

Holy shit that’s a real thing

twei@discuss.tchncs.de on 29 Oct 2024 18:01 next collapse

Biebian

finestnothing@lemmy.world on 29 Oct 2024 18:16 collapse

There is also TempleOS, with a fork of C called Holy C built specifically for better integration with it

SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org on 29 Oct 2024 22:16 collapse

Why not Red Star OS? They can take North Korean soldiers but not their software?

ma1w4re@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 2024 16:13 next collapse

When it fails I’m gonna laugh a lot.

Railcar8095@lemm.ee on 29 Oct 2024 22:04 collapse

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.ee on 30 Oct 2024 00:00 collapse

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.

Vilian@lemmy.ca on 30 Oct 2024 00:53 collapse

Get the money and get the hell out of there

andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works on 29 Oct 2024 16:37 next collapse

Astra (used in MIC) is outdated shit, RED OS (more commercial) is cooler and wine’d in a lot of our windows-oriented apps, but both would have a hard time without international community if threatened.

That’s just some figureheads shitting with their mouths. There are millions of machines still running Windows with no way to change without a pushback from users and admins, and also some Linux machines that would only suffer if we branch out.

RxBrad@infosec.pub on 29 Oct 2024 18:58 next collapse

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

neidu2@feddit.nl on 29 Oct 2024 19:48 next collapse

…with blyatjack and hookers!

potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish on 30 Oct 2024 01:03 next collapse

Now that’s my type of kernel

Badeendje@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 01:54 collapse

Made me spill my coffee

QuarterSwede@lemmy.world on 30 Oct 2024 02:53 next collapse

So Lada quality. Got it.

DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 30 Oct 2024 19:47 next collapse

“Oh buzz, I would love to see you try…”

ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world on 31 Oct 2024 11:02 collapse

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.