Putin to put Russian government on Linux by 2015

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin [cq] has ordered government agencies there to open-source software by 2015, according to translated documents.

Putin's order, signed this month, follows news reports from October saying the Russian government was planning to drop Microsoft products in favor of a national open-source operating system based on Linux.Computerworld

Um...ok? Cool story I guess.

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You could have made the title so much better. Putin to put in Linux in Russian Government or something. USE HIS NAME!xTheExploited

[QUOTE="xTheExploited"]You could have made the title so much better. Putin to put in Linux in Russian Government or something. USE HIS NAME!Hexagon_777

No way, that is simply NUTS!!!!!!t3hrubikscube

Remember, free is just another word for communist.

Comes to show you how clever he is.

No government with half a wit would use Windows, or any closed source OS as their system.

Comes to show you how clever he is.

No government with half a wit would use Windows, or any closed source OS as their system.

iAtrocious

The thought of an influential world power running anything other than a Linux/Unix OS is pretty damn scary.

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Apart from all the jokes about communism, the gist I am getting is that this is a great move and that it is actually to be expected. As far as I know, China itself has its own Linux system.

I cant think of a good "In Soviet Russia" jokeLed_poison

In Soviet Russia, source opens you!

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Comes to show you how clever he is.

No government with half a wit would use Windows, or any closed source OS as their system.

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Very bad idea, actually. If there's one thing virtually everyone in the field agrees with, it's that implementing security through obscurity is a very, very bad design decision. The very best forms of security are ones where everyone can understand perfectly how it works and yet no one can break it even with that information. If you rely on nobody knowing the inner workings of something in order to protect yourself against attackers, then the moment anything gets leaked, your entire system is basically fatally compromised and must be replaced. Modern operating systems have withstood the fires of the real world for years and years and have been refined and polished through that exposure and use. As such, these modern OSes will inevitably be much more secure than an experimental OS whose first test in the real world will be a determined, experienced hacker. (And yes, Windows is absolutely included in this group, despite the hearty guffaws that people like to get from acting as though Windows 7 is still Windows 95.) You can put together a group of as good programmers as you want; they aren't going to put together something as complex as an operating system without getting something wrong the first time.

russia is going to save lots of money and will be more safe to .

Var e vargen?

Looks like it's time to overthrow the Russian government.

Looks like it's time to overthrow the Russian government.worlock77

[QUOTE="worlock77"]Looks like it's time to overthrow the Russian government.Hexagon_777

They're switching to open-source software. That's not friendly to American business interests.

I guess that's better. It can be more secure. Is he switching because MS is American?Devouring_One

It's a step being taken by many governments. Linux adoption is huge in many South American countries like Brazil, and the EU recently passed a directive that governments should try to use open source software on a greater scale. So given the state of the Russian economy, and their proclivity towards thinking American corporations might put backdoors in their software to allow US agencies access to their data (true or not, a lot of countries are paranoid about that; China and India, for instance) it comes as no surprise that Russia took this step.Ankur

They can't be associated with Capitalist America anymore! Death to Windows!

Any move where you can get a large amount of people to switch from something they are paying for to something just as good for free seems like a good thing. Although we also might see a rise in viruses specifically written to run on Linux.

[QUOTE="Led_poison"]I cant think of a good "In Soviet Russia" jokeGabuEx

In Soviet Russia, source opens you!

Haha that made me laugh hard :lol:

And knowing Putin, if he says he will do something, chances are it will happen.

What does this all mean? How is open-source "free"? And why does it take until 2015 to install it for the government?

What does this all mean? How is open-source "free"? And why does it take until 2015 to install it for the government?Mogotoo

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Nice one.

Putin definitely isn't the first to make this move. I am rather surprised by that list. :shock:

[QUOTE="Led_poison"]I cant think of a good "In Soviet Russia" jokeGabuEx

In Soviet Russia, source opens you!

What about "in soviet Russia, system operates you"?

I hate myself...

I guess that's better. It can be more secure. Is he switching because MS is American?Devouring_One