Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions

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They expect the special operation to take only a month.

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).

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

A national fork? In Russia?

Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

Ok, that was always allowed!

Okay then, that was always allowed

Sputnix.

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

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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.

In Russia, Linux forks you!

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...

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

Ru-nix

The bad kerning in that cover image text cannot be unseen

why wouldn't they just contribute to kylin, considering russia and china's allyship?

Just don't install it alongside Windows.

Was wondering if something like this would happen

Fascinating.

sanctioning foss is dumb as fuck.