FUD or whatnot
Russia might switch thousands of government computers to Linux to spite Microsoft
"If the Russian experience with Linux is anything like everyone else's, trying to do something as simple as change screen resolution could mean that users are forced to recompile the kernel and reinstall the entire operating system. Which will probably slow down any Russian advance into the Baltics, at least a little bit."
Really?
More like some idiot who doesn't know what he's talking about. Or heck, it could be a deliberate attempt to get someone like you to link to the article. ;)
I want to think it's a joke (which is what it seems like without context), but after reading the article I'm not sure at all.
The tone's all over the place...
The Kremlin switch-over to GNU/Linux has been so long in the making that I had grown sceptical of it. Why make a big fuss of it now? I think it's got something to do with the auspicious launch of Windows 10. A renewed interest in surveillance and backdoors might be warranted.
"Is it any surprise that Russia would be uncomfortable with software that behaves so stealthily and opaquely? For goodness sake, I’m not comfortable with such behavior on my network and, I suspect, many of you won’t be either."
Russia's home-grown Elbrus architecture is closed and proprietary, so no obvious help here for us libre enthusiasts, but it would be intriguing to try their hardware on a libre distribution and see how it is supported.