ROS: Russian Operating System
Thursday, September 20th, 2007It’s been a while since these talks started. There have been a lot of “for” and “against” opinions concerning the creation of a particular operating system which can be called Russian.
On the 15th of September, in Sochi, the Academy of Information Technologies and Federal Bureau of Technical and Export Control authorized Mandriva Linux distro as a stable Linux version for corporate use.
As the result, Mandriva now can become a “standard” version of Operating System for governmental sectors in Russia.
Personally, I’ve never used it and can’t compare its functionality with other OS’es, but the worst nightmares of ROS didn’t appear to be true, like:
Will Mandriva be an only version of Linux distro used in government sector or not - that’s the question, but a good thing is that Linux is acknowledged as OS alternatives on government levels.
Measuring the level of Linux integration, a good example is a massive integration of Linux in China - project Red Flag Linux. Hopefully, this first step in Russia will make Open Source systems more popular then now.