Software libre! Cuba develops own free Linux called 'Nova'

The Che Stallman and Che Tux t-shirts take on a whole new aspect.

We were taking a hard look at one of the videos, and while it's said that it's a Gentoo variant, It's using the Sabayon (Gentoo deriv) package manager. So it's a binary distro with Gentoo compatability, as Entropy, which one of the videos clearly shows, is a binary only package manager.

Regardless, it's a win for Linux and Gentoo, but a much bigger win for Fabio and the Sabayon crew.

Pretty frickin' amazing when you consider that it all has to be done with 50s and 60s era COBOL and FORTRAN patched together with baling wire and Bondo.

There are a few goofs. For example, Cuban gcc is mostly OK, but it recognizes a PICTURE statement.

Quoting: For example, Cuban gcc is mostly OK, but it recognizes a PICTURE statement.

You mean COBOL and FORTRAN had GUIs?

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They do now!

I seem to recall the term "Visual Fortran" from somewhere...

Smart move by the Cuban leadership. Good choice of base for their system too. I hope they succeed in meeting their stated goal, because that will be a win for Free Software as well.