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[–] anzo 21 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Dear all, please remember that engaging with trolls can get you banned (rule of thumb, half the time the offender gets for themselves)

Write what you want others to read, I don't care if there are disagreements. But go get a private chat room if you want to exchange insults with them :)

[–] [email protected] 120 points 3 weeks ago (34 children)

They expect the special operation to take only a month.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Developers mysteriously pushed ~~through~~ to Windows.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Go for it. That's one of the benefits of being FOSS, and other countries have their own versions of Linux already (that meet whatever dumb authoritarian rules are required).

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

A national fork? In Russia?

Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Ok, that was always allowed!

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Why not just use Red Star Linux? I thought Jong Un and Vlad were besties.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Well to be pedantic, Red Star is a custom DE on top of Linux, not a kernel

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago (29 children)

Okay then, that was always allowed

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

regardless, a country should maintain their own fork regardless if its being used for government computers.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh man I fucking called this one, as soon as I read that article a few days ago saying that the Russian maintainers were removed from the kernel, I'm like man if Russia was smart right now they would do a country-funded version, this is completely legal as well under the licensing of the current kernel.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It will last a month before they realize it is really dumb

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

In Russia, Linux forks you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I would be very surprised if such a fork would diverge from Linux. I would guess that this would be little more than a branch with (most likely) support for Russian hardware. Just my hunch.

A legitimate hard fork doesn't seem particularly smart to me, but what do I know...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

It's not about a divergent featureset, it's about making sure Russian businesses can continue to legally use Linux if the US decides to make that the next step

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Only possible because its FOSS. Hopefully this shows more governments why FOSS is awesome.

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[–] groknull 6 points 3 weeks ago

The bad kerning in that cover image text cannot be unseen

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