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2018-01-10 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian ministry of defense to change over to Linux

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Ministry of Defense has decided to transfer all office computers to the operating system Linux-based Astra Linux of the Moscow-based company RusBITEkh, the Izvestia newspaper reported, citing sources in the ministry.

The expanded version, Astra Linux Special Edition, with a built-in office suite will be used on the ministry's working computers, and on the next stage it will be used on smartphones and tablets, the newspaper said. If the new operating system meets military requirements, it will be installed on all computers in the ministry and will be the main one for automated control systems and workplaces, servers and on-board military equipment.

Dmitry Donskoy, Deputy CEO of RusBITEkh, confirmed the information to the newspaper. "A key feature of Astra Linux Special Edition is the unique system of information protection. The operation system is fully compatible with modern Russian-made computers. It works with high-tech domestic processors Elbrus, Baikal-T1 and Komdiv. They are the 'heart' of the last-generation supercomputers," he said.

As the publication notes, the Astra Linux system has been used by the Russian Armed Forces for several years, in particular, the information system of the Russian National Defense Control Center (NDCC). In addition, it is already used today in existing models of weapons and military equipment and in a number of promising projects.

Posted by badanov 2018-01-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Until they run it on some different processor it doesn't make any difference.

Not Intel. Not Amd. Not Arm.

Posted by 3dc 2018-01-10 01:51|| 2018-01-10 01:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Main thing is it is free, as in , no money up front!

MS software cost money, Russian apparently have a slight budget issue.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2018-01-10 02:53|| 2018-01-10 02:53|| Front Page Top

#3 MS visual Studio allows you to create programs that run on Windows and Linux platforms. FYI

Posted by Cheretle Angeans6218 2018-01-10 03:22|| 2018-01-10 03:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The 2017 version of Visual Studio...

Posted by Cheretle Angeans6218 2018-01-10 03:24|| 2018-01-10 03:24|| Front Page Top

#5 And Macs, and IOS, and Android...

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-01-10 07:58|| 2018-01-10 07:58|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm holding out for RSX or RSTS/E.

Posted by AlanC 2018-01-10 08:02|| 2018-01-10 08:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Why hold out

Posted by newc 2018-01-10 09:38|| 2018-01-10 09:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Main thing is it is free, as in , no money up front!

I suspect the issue is not the cheapness, but the fact that you get the source code and can see what is going on under the hood with your operating system.

Posted by SteveS 2018-01-10 09:51|| 2018-01-10 09:51|| Front Page Top

#9 Jeeeez newc!!

You're giving me flashbacks that I may never recover from (DEC software dweeb circa '80 to '94)

Posted by AlanC 2018-01-10 13:10|| 2018-01-10 13:10|| Front Page Top

#10 #3 MS visual Studio allows you to create programs that run on Windows and Linux platforms. FYI
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218

Is that what they used to program the F-35 with? It would explain the bloatware.

Posted by Seeking cure for ignorance 2018-01-10 14:24|| 2018-01-10 14:24|| Front Page Top

#11 My eyes, newc, my eyes!
Flashback to campus days programming Ass-en-bumbler on a academic PDP-11/70. Coca-cola, M&Ms and Pepperoni Pizza...

Posted by magpie 2018-01-10 14:30|| 2018-01-10 14:30|| Front Page Top

#12 MVS/TSO

It’s true... working in TSO really is like kicking a dead whale down the beach....

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-01-10 15:26|| 2018-01-10 15:26|| Front Page Top

#13 I have a Coma for 32 and an Okidata printer for sale at a reasonable price.

Posted by Bman 2018-01-10 16:44|| 2018-01-10 16:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Try MPS-10 on an AD-10. (Knowing the Rantburg crowd, we could play "Top This!" until doomsday.)

Posted by PBMcL 2018-01-10 18:18|| 2018-01-10 18:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Yep PBMcL we could do that.

My first IT job involved running the burster and decollater; moved up eventually to the plug boards on the card sorter. 10 years later I went to CDC and started bit banging for real.......those were the days my friend.

Posted by AlanC 2018-01-10 19:46|| 2018-01-10 19:46|| Front Page Top

#16 I've got 64GB of RAM in my machine,
I once thought that was a lot for a DISK!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-01-10 19:49|| 2018-01-10 19:49|| Front Page Top

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