A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows
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Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows
#2So they took Fedora and a dead end fork of Open Office and re-skinned them to look like Windows XP. Additional applications are installed using Yum. Microsoft are toast!
Edit: BTW, what ever happened to Red Flag Linux?
Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows
#3So they took Fedora and a dead end fork of Open Office and re-skinned them to look like Windows XP. Additional applications are installed using Yum. Microsoft are toast! Edit: BTW, what ever happened to Red Flag Linux?
Actually the biggest fear I have of this sort of thing is that they'll end up with standalone unshared forks of stuff, which won't benefit from newer developments and bug fixes in other forks, and vice-versa.
Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows
#4So they took Fedora and a dead end fork of Open Office and re-skinned them to look like Windows XP. Additional applications are installed using Yum. Microsoft are toast! Edit: BTW, what ever happened to Red Flag Linux?
Actually the biggest fear I have of this sort of thing is that they'll end up with standalone unshared forks of stuff, which won't benefit from newer developments and bug fixes in other forks, and vice-versa.
Another problem is they may violate licenses by not distributing source. We may end up with forked versions of the kernel and other major components, with useful new features implemented and no corresponding source. (Note: I have no evidence that this is happening).
Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows
#5 uname -a | grep Linux
Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows
#6So they took Fedora and a dead end fork of Open Office and re-skinned them to look like Windows XP. Additional applications are installed using Yum. Microsoft are toast! Edit: BTW, what ever happened to Red Flag Linux?
The original Red Flag Linux is ended in 2014, due to fail to get government subsidy. This is recorded on both Chinese and English wikipedia. And in later 2014, another company bought the remnant of Red Flag Linux and continued publishing it till now, though I don't know anyone still using it.
Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows
#7Man this article has the most pointless and annoying use of Animated GIFs. I want to read that uname line, damn it, what's the point of animating the typing in of it? Over and over again in a loop?
Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows
#8uname -a | grep Linux /golfclap
They were suspicious when a unix terminal (telltale sign you might have accidentally installed linux) popped up so they did some forensics!
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#9Nobody uses it in China. Dell installs it on computers just because a computer without an OS is not allowed to sell in China.
Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows
#10The article mentions that NeoKylin may be based on a recent version of Fedora, which has me confused. Isn't NeoKylin derived from Kylin, rather than Fedora?