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[–] neidu2@feddit.nl 36 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

...with blyatjack and hookers!

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 1 points 31 minutes ago

Made me spill my coffee

Now that's my type of kernel

[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 19 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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

[–] DrDystopia@lemy.lol 45 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Please base russian linux on Hannah Montana linux.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Holy shit that's a real thing

[–] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 8 hours ago
[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 94 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

With blackjack and hookers?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

And vodka. Soooooo much vodka!

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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 3 points 7 hours ago

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.

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 14 points 12 hours ago

Their version of pre-natal vitamins.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 34 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

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.

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

[–] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

Could it be like this? Archive.org ISO

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 37 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] WagnasT@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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шнеяе уоця аddяеss ?

[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

nanana eeice oeee !

shneyae oootsya addyaess ?

хахаха нисе оне !

вэрэ ис ыоуp аддресс ?

[–] ma1w4re@lemm.ee 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

When it fails I'm gonna laugh a lot.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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 1 points 1 hour ago

Get the money and get the hell out of there

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 17 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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 2 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 17 points 13 hours ago

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.

[–] mEEGal@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

шiтн веLот аиd vоdкд аиd ноокеяs

[–] Toofpic@feddit.dk 2 points 4 hours ago

transcription: "shitn velot aeed vodkd aeed nookeyas"

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

shitn velot aid vodkd aid nookeyas

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 24 minutes ago)

Ah, they're doing it all for the nookeyas

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