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Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers. (therecord.media)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] drmoose 12 points 4 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

An air-gapped FreeBSD os is significantly more stable and more secure than a commercially available os used globally. Security is more important to militaries than the fucking end user experience.

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

A gapped anything is going to be more secure than anything connected to the network. But if any I don't see what the operating system has to do with it.

Anyway that's not really what I'm talking about, the laptops that are given out to soldiers in the field are windows laptops not Linux.

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

How do you know this? Apologies, but I'm not going to believe a rando internet person's comment and take it as fact at face value.

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

How do I know that the soldiers get Windows laptops?

Because they do? They get Windows laptops. They don't get Linux laptops.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Piss poor dodge of answering the simple question.

If anyone is reading this thread, unless [email protected] provides some sort of evidence, don't believe what they say, ever.

[–] nforminvasion 1 points 3 weeks ago

Wouldn't openbsd absolutely take the cake then? Freaking OS is more secure than a vault