Russia uses a custom Linux in the government and the military. Western sanctions have accelerated the process of import substitution in IT.
  • CaptainBasculin
    30·
    4 天前

    EU backed distro is seriously missing from the marketshare considering even Turkey has its own Linux distro. I mean EU with all the pressure it gives to tech firms to behave fair, it’s strange they don’t fund a custom distro as an alternative to the Microsoft’s monopoly on the PC OS market.

    • Handles@leminal.spaceEnglish
      18·
      4 天前

      a custom distro

      …or just a pre-exsting one. Heck, they should just make it a point to support open source development.

      • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
        11·
        4 天前

        This. Just require all gov products and documentation to be open. (unless military and even then open were possible)

        Creating a new distro is not needed. Let users or nation gov bodies select or create as they see fit.

        • loics2@lemm.ee
          3·
          4 天前

          Just require all gov products and documentation to be open. (unless military and even then open were possible)

          This is the case for Switzerland, a new law was implemented a few months ago

      • Fushuan [he/him]@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        4 天前

        Supporting existing ones where possible and adding private stuff or diatro specific stuff when it’s not is the best way to go. Like valve and arch.

        • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
          1·
          3 天前

          And it’s not like every major distro doesn’t have a way to add custom repos to the stock package manager if they need to deviate from the disro’s stock repos for any reason

      • tetris11
        3·
        4 天前

        They did used to. They’ve scaled it back recently

  • fl42v
    7·
    4 天前

    Huh, nice to see those guys still have this weird KDE 3 fetish.

  • LifeLemonsEnglish
    2·
    4 天前

    Kind of looks like windows vista design. Also it is probably a best thing that linux be adopted by countries. Gives better control and can be used for variety of purposes

  • Luffy879
    32·
    4 天前

    Im just waiting for some capitalist to call Linux inc out for supporting the russians