Russia's Operating System May Be Fedora Based 242
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."
It's Simple Really (Score:1, Funny)
Russia's Operating System May Be Fedora Based
An upside down fedora will represent a zero and a right side up fedora will represent a one ... we will use state of the art Soviet technology to flip (or "flop") each hat as the program runs ...
RED Hat, come on ppl (Score:5, Funny)
In soviet russia... (Score:3, Funny)
Dostoevsky warned of this (Score:3, Funny)
Consider that Raskolnikov was only an outlaw because he believed himself to be such. If he hadn't had the guilty conscience, the authorities never would have caught up with him. They believed that the painters had done the crime, and had the confession to prove it.
But all men who are good at heart love honesty, and though Raskolnikov was able to commit murder, he was unable to maintain the lie which he had constructed.
In much the same vein, Javert was able to break his case against Jean Valjean because though a criminal, Valjean was never the hardened criminal he was portrayed to be.
In short, Russian Linux is likely to suck.
Re:RED Hat, come on ppl (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they'll rename it Red Ushanka! :P
You are kidding arent you? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
USSR (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Too perfect that it's based on RED Hat. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You are kidding arent you? (Score:4, Funny)
Whoa whoa whoa.
Windows is still there. Linux runs on top of it.
Re:In soviet russia... (Score:5, Funny)
But why Fedora?
Because only in the Russian language are there enough curse words to accurately describe yum breaking X.org, the video drivers, and itself after downloading 450 MB of updates because you didn't update in two weeks.
That was FC6, and F7 would not install on my Inspiron (driving me to Kubuntu). I love Fedora to death, but it is _not_ for your daily driver! Unless you happen to speak a language where every tangible noun can be made into a curse word. Pizdyetz!
Re:Keep your head down (Score:4, Funny)
You know something like
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road
A: Because Russia, a formerly communist nation, has decided to go with a national operating system that forms the basis for a different operating system called Red Hat. And Red is the main color associated with Communism in general. Which makes this joke funny. Also, chickens are in a constant state of motion. They don't really have a set destination in mind, and just wander aimlessly most of the time. So its more of a question of why it wasn't in its coop and what lazy farmer couldn't be bothered to care for his farm animals, than why it an animal with no cognitive power of its own to speak of crossed any kind of a road.
See, not the least bit funny. There should be an editor level feature that only allows for negative moderation on stories. So then the competition amongst the attention seekers would be to see who could write the most bland, non attempt at any horrible run on jokes/memes comments.
Re:You are kidding arent you? (Score:1, Funny)
lol at that dumb teacher quote.
Re:USSR (Score:5, Funny)
Ah, finally, those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? Eh, comrades? Eh?
They should call it... (Score:3, Funny)
No Files (Score:3, Funny)
Re:USSR (Score:3, Funny)
Er, Austin... we won!
this is basically fedora (Score:2, Funny)
Of *course* it's the OS for the Russian Fedoration (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In soviet russia... (Score:2, Funny)
But why Fedora?
Seems like the perfect OS for use in the Russian Fedoration...
Finally, an OS that has files on YOU. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Keep your head down (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.
Re:In Non-Soviet Russia, the OS Writes You! (Score:3, Funny)
I thought Russia didn't need help, weren't invalids and didn't have limited mental capacity
Well at least not until they open that third lunchtime bottle of vodka ...
Cyrillic letters (Score:3, Funny)
Our national OS should be written in Cyrillic letters. Not a single Latin letter or word should be present in the code.
Certainly there should be a possibility to switch to a Latin keyboard, if necessary, but the OS should be in our letters, in our language.
Re:this is basically fedora (Score:1, Funny)
Re:You are kidding arent you? (Score:4, Funny)
Mrs. Windows left Mr. Windows for Linux. That's why Linux works with Mrs. X-Windows.
Hunt for the RED October (Score:4, Funny)
Checkbox humour? I'm glad you asked, you know what I mean like:
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Somehow we got on to Quantum Poultridynamics, Chicken entrail entanglement is interesting however, may lead to a method of predicting future.
Seriously, this article is a masterful slashdot troll!
Re:RED Hat, come on ppl (Score:3, Funny)