Is Linux At the End of Its Life Cycle?

Glyn Moody writes "That's what Nikolai Pryanishnikov, president of Microsoft Russia, seems to think. Quoted in the context of continuing questions about Russia's plans to create its own national operating system based on GNU/Linux, Pryanishnikov said [via Google Translate]: 'We must bear in mind that Linux is not a Russian OS and, moreover, is at the end of its life cycle.' An off-the-cuff comment, or something more?"

In Soviet Russia...

[Stregano]

...good OS dies first

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[drumcat]

Linux reboots you.

Nonstory, sorry

[Anonymous Coward]

This just in, WIndows person says non-windows product will fail! Gets frontpage on slashdot!

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President of Microsoft Russia

[stagg]

Well, the president of Microsoft Russia should be a reliable, trustworthy source for this kind of analysis, right? Right?

what will it be called?

[digitalsushi]

PinkOS.

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

Lifecycle ENDS YOU!

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[uzyn]

... national OS makes Russians.

EVEN AS LINUX BEGAN...

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

We knew that fools would Russian, to try and Finnish it off.

Re:EVEN AS LINUX BEGAN...

[masmullin]

but I... cant... help... falling in love with gnu!

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Re:It's Hindsight

[Anonymous Coward]

1. cmake sucks ass

Is it any worse than autoboardwithrustynails + autobagofbrokenglass + autofountainofacid?

Re:It's Hindsight

[kwabbles]

You tenderfoots and your DASHES and CLANGS... you unwittingly believe that your new tools are so sexy and shiny, giggling and chuckling with your hippo dancing jokes. These tools are an abomination and a sacrilege. REPENT! The filthy whores of Babylon such is Apple may give you honey, they may give you mead now - but in the end you will be left in sorrow, pennyless. She will take your GNU purity and defile it and you will rend your clothes and mourn when you realize the extent of your filth.

REPENT!

Linux NT

[perpenso]

All open source projects evolve to the point where the current developers want to throw away all the code and start again.

I'm expecting Linux NT, an entirely new kernel using a microkernel architecture. :-)

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[IICV]

I was going to go for "... Microsoft EOLs Linux", myself.

Re:Wadka.

[Anonymous Coward]

That's FUDka.

Re:Google Translate

[sheehaje]

"This is news?"

It has the words Linux, Microsoft, and Russia in it. News? This to Slashdot is like the Ark of the Covenant is to religion.

Re:And Windows is?

[cforciea]

Then they discarded 95/98

That's a funny way of describing the Windows ME production process, but after a couple of seconds thought, I think it is accurate.

Re:Google Translate

[LifesABeach]

After listening to Nikolai's comments, a more accurate translation turned out to be, "If 'I' use Linux, 'I' will be at the end of 'My' Life-Cycle." It's a common translation mistake.

Re:Google Translate

[Anonymous Coward]

Hmm.. After 10 translations, "Holy Testicle Tuesday!" becomes...

"Holy Testicle Tuesday!"

Maybe funnytranslator.com is at the end of its life-cycle.

Re:EVEN AS LINUX BEGAN...

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

There's Norway that would happen!

Re:It's Hindsight

[slapout]

I thought RMS's primary goal was to ensure that everyone called it GNU/Linux :-)

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[marcello_dl]

FUD spreads Microsoft Russian (aka MSSR) exec.

I think I know why MSSR is depicting Linux as a end of line OS: I hear MS has a beta of an operating system, has been in the works for a loong time (beta 1.0 came shortly after the first Mac). One of these days it will be good for release. Possibly.

Re:EVEN AS LINUX BEGAN...

[Kjella]

Hmm, bestiality [wikimedia.org] or zealotry [wordpress.com], tough choice. At least one of them don't intentionally eat their toe jam...

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[bluelip]

Maybe someone should let him know that his nation is beyond the end of its life-cycle.

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[Tetsujin]

Drago: If it dies, it dies.

I don't hate Balboa. I pity the fool.

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[arbitraryaardvark]

Yuri: what's the difference between microsoft and russia?
Sasha: One's a ruthless totalitarian empire bent on world domination, with millions of informers, riddled with organized crime.
The other's a computer company.

Re:Nonstory, sorry

[Random BedHead Ed]

No, he's absolutely correct: Linux is scheduled for EOL in 2011, and even now Linus is only patching critical security bugs (we'll still probably see at least a few of those every Linux Patch Tuesday until EOL, and frankly I'll be happy to see my last LPT). And look, there hasn't been a major update since Linux SP4 in 2006, and he stopped active development of Linux's integrated web browser, Firefox, years ago, so it's not like we weren't warned. I'm not sure what everyone here is complaining about - sure, this Microsoft Russia guy is itching for us to switch to Windows now that Linux is going away, but most of us upgraded to PostLinux 7 Business Premium Edition well over a year ago. This is a non-story.

Re:In Soviet Russia...

[mangu]

Yuri: what's the difference between microsoft and russia?
Sasha: One's a ruthless totalitarian empire bent on world domination, with millions of informers, riddled with organized crime.
The other's a computer company.

I knew they had privatized everything when the Soviet Union fell, but this is ridiculous!

No way they turned Russia into a computer company!

Re:And Windows is?

[the_womble]

LOL. Where do all these 'there is no difference in security between operating system' trolls come from?

Microsoft Russia.