• adr1an@programming.dev
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    17 days 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 :)

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    18 days ago

    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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    18 days ago

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

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

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    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…

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      18 days ago

      “I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, Rus/GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Russian Federation plus GNU plus Linux minus Linus.”

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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.

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    18 days ago

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

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      18 days ago

      This will only show the idiots over at Western governments that FOSS is hurr durr bad, lets Ruskies evade sanctions