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The Russian government is looking to develop and deploy an operating system to compete with Microsoft Windows, Yahoo reports. The new OS is intended to reduce the dependency of Russian business on the Redmond company. Russian lawmakers also cited security as a concern. To complete this project, Russia is earmarking the equivalent of $4.9 million.
The as-yet unnamed OS will be based on the Linux operating system, but many feel this course of action has the potential to result in a poorly designed and supported operating system. This whole thing comes in shades of North Korea's Red Star Linux if you ask us. With high piracy rates in Russia, it may be harder than expected to get businesses to move to this new option.
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Leif52pickup
October 28, 2010 at 5:51pm
Russian Operating System...
In communist Russia, the System Operates you?
Wingzero_x
October 28, 2010 at 11:49am
It makes no matter how much anybody spends on an OS, if you don't have the apps people want to use, it will fail! People do not use operating systems! Even Linus Torvades acknowledges this fact!
strangelove9
October 28, 2010 at 10:56am
Don't be so quick to dismiss Russian programming... they still have some of the world's best mathematicians and hackers, and notions like "patriotism" are not to be trifled with. A Russian OS may just be the kind of state-sponsored program to produce a viable result.
Over the next few years (and, in part, due to the North American market consolidation and decrease of number of players) there will be a growing trend towards finding in-home IT solutions, especially in the BRIC countries.
The Chinese started to produce their own chips, and although these were laughed at in the beginning, there are signs that Han silicon might start to decrease the gap that separates it from the leaders of the pack. See here: http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/26596/?p1=A4
994196003
October 28, 2010 at 8:27am
In sovit Russia, Operating systems controlls YOU!
These are my guesses,
40% of progams are both windows and mac
10% is only mac
25% is only Pc
25 is only linux
now russia is going to thow their own peice of crap of a operating system into this already packed war?
Good luck
lunchbox73
October 28, 2010 at 5:40am
Wow, government in general does a terrible job of creating anything. The private market always does a better and more economical job. The fact that it's the Russian government makes it even more hilarious. In Russia OS hacks YOU.
Lhot
October 28, 2010 at 1:29am
Russia has some of the world's best hackers...I guess it all depends on who they get to write their OS hmmm?
OliverSudden
October 27, 2010 at 8:15pm
"Windows sucks like Polish Vodka. In Russia, operating system reboots YOU."
JohnP
October 27, 2010 at 7:20pm
Russia is terrific at writing operating systems! Just look at their track record in 1st class software. There was the Chernobyl fail safe software that worked so well, the bookkeeping software that kept the Soviet Union humming, the anti corruption software that has enabled Russia to keep ahead of Laos, and finally, the political software that helped Russia tame the Afgans. In fact, the last worked so well that the US secretly bought a copy and has been using it undercover for years.
Good luck with that, President Medvedev.
nightkiller
October 27, 2010 at 5:27pm
Just 5 million bucks? That's a lot of money to spend on one end user.
oleg.ko@gmail.com
October 27, 2010 at 6:05pm
Wrong math. In Russia 80-90% would be stolen thru kickbacks and creative accounting. So it is less than 1M.
