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 :)

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).

A national fork? In Russia?

Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

Ok, that was always allowed!

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

Okay then, that was always allowed

Sputnix.

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

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