Linux To Be Installed In Every Russian School

J_Omega writes "According to an article from last week at the Russian IT site CNews, Linux is slated to be installed in every Russian school by 2009. The article makes it appear that it will be going by the (unimaginative) name 'Russian OS.' As stated in the article: 'The main aim of the given work is to reduce dependence on foreign commercial software and provide education institutions with the possibility to choose whether to pay for commercial items or to use the software, provided by the government.' Initial testing installations are supposed to begin next year in select districts. Is 2008/09 the year of Linux on the (Russian) desktop?"

Great, the penguin goes red!

[DragonTHC]

This is potentially good for Linux and potentially bad for Internet banking.

Let's teach all the russian kids how to hack. This is what we should be doing in the USA.

Re:Great, the penguin goes red!

[eobanb]

In Soviet Russia, Linux hacks you!

Cue "Bill and Melinda Gates..."

[Penguinisto]

I wonder how long it'll take before Mssr. Gates and his little charity swoops in and donates a universal XP license to all russian schools?

/P

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

Wait, how does Linux teach you how to hack? Is there a hacking man page that I've been missing? Maybe it is in /usr/share/hack or /usr/share/doc/hack? Never checked those directories my self. Or maybe with the latest wireless drivers the wireless car shoots needles into your brain, upload hacking knowledge directly.

Your theories are fascinating indeed.

Open Source Really Is Like Communism Now

[johnrpenner]

this will just play into the hands of our detractors who can now claim that 'Open Source Really Is Like Communism' (never mind that it was invented by an American... ;-)

at least i'm trying to be funny...

j

--
open source -- in the long tradition of libraries, liberty, and threefolding [earthlink.net]...

Re:Huh?

[maxwell demon]

Wait, how does Linux teach you how to hack? Is there a hacking man page that I've been missing? Maybe it is in /usr/share/hack or /usr/share/doc/hack? Never checked those directories my self.

/usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/BackspaceDelete/morehack.html
/usr/share/doc/howto/en/html/LVM-HOWTO/hackingcode.html
/usr/share/doc/kernel/kernel-hacking.pdf
/usr/share/doc/packages/fftw/README.hacks
/usr/share/doc/packages/gnokii/gnokii-hackers-howto
/usr/share/doc/packages/gnucash/guile-hackers.txt
/usr/share/doc/packages/libquicktime-devel/hackersguide.txt
/usr/share/doc/packages/ncurses/hackguide.doc
/usr/share/doc/packages/ncurses/hackguide.html

SCNR :-)

This anti-piracy move shoud make Microsft happy.

[Technician]

It should make Microsoft very happy as Russia is a hotbed of pirated copies of Microsoft products. It is nice to see Russia taking a proactive step to combat international piracy.

(*($%^%#%^-crash%%&(

What is that sound from Redmond?

Re:Great, the penguin goes red!

[tverbeek]

In Post-Soviet Russia, the students program the computers! What a country!

Re:What's wrong with the name?

[ScrewMaster]

Or as Ensign Chekov would no doubt have said, "Linux? Of course, Keptin. It was a Russian inwention."

Re:Huh?

[moderatorrater]

Linux ships with 4 high level computer languages useable out of the box in the base install - perl, python, C and C++.

Let's not forget PHP. No, seriously, guys, where are you going? Guys, come back!

Re:Great, the penguin goes red!

[boaworm]

Well atleast we know that, In Soviet Russia, Linux is desktop ready ;-)

Re:Huh?

[DaedalusHKX]

Yep, the only things Russian computers will have in "closed source" will be the monitoring and surveillance modules. Those will be copyrighted NSA/KGB 2.0 :)

Jokes

[BitwizeGHC]

Congratulations, Slashdot trolls -- the "In Soviet Russia" jokes now write themselves.

"Lenix"

[Aokubidaikon]

Would get my vote! How about a poll on this, Slashdot!

Re:What's wrong with the name?

[meringuoid]

Don't you know Linux was invented in Russia? :p

Ever mistakenly called an Irishman British - or worse, English? Remember the reaction you got?

Right. Now, you know Finland? You know what they think about Russia? Yep.

Oh, by the way, the Finns make about the best hunting rifles in the world. Pretty much everybody has one. And silencers are perfectly legal and uncontroversial.

Now, go away and sit in the corner and think about what you did, and don't come back until you're ready to say sorry.

Coming to a linux-distro near you...

[Anonymous Coward]

it's the all new and improved KGB Desktop Environment!

Re:Huh?

[kaizokuace]

psshaw! Tux annoyingly pops up a-la Clippy and asks what you would like to hack depending on what you are doing.
Tux: Are you trying to DDOS this page?
Me: No Tux go away!
Tux: Here are your options -
1. DDOS attack
2. ???!!?
3. Profit!

Re:Huh?

[ozmanjusri]

Where is the C compiler stored on the Windows disk?

C:/Windows/System32/Debug.exe *

* Some assembly required.