South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry

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Post by jrepinc » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:20 PM UTC

South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
koreaherald.com

Re: South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry

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Post by ducttape12 » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

I remember hearing years ago IE usage was crazy high in South Korea because they had laws in place requiring all online banking customers to install an ActiveX control. If that's true... Then they've come pretty far.

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Post by tooltalk » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:37 PM UTC

> ... as Microsoft’s free technical support for Windows 7 expires in January 2020.

they are still on Windows 7? ouch!!!

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Post by cvnyw » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:42 PM UTC

tooltalk wrote: post #3

> ... as Microsoft’s free technical support for Windows 7 expires in January 2020. they are still on Windows 7? ouch!!!

Lighter and easier to manage than 10... why not?

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Post by babakandishmand » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:46 PM UTC

Curious if they'd roll out their own distro.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:46 PM UTC

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Post by thewhitetulip » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

I hope that Indian govt switches to Linux

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Post by Yeri » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:49 PM UTC

I used to support our office in S. Korea.

It's true they depend super heavily on ActiveX and other weird applets/software that runs only on Windows and/or IE.

A lot of the communication with the government (yearly tax submission) as well as banking software would not run on our Linux or OSX devices, and so we had these 'loaner' windows 'tax machines' that got reimaged every few days that people could use to do their business.

They also have their own Office-like suite by Hancon[1], that is a pain to support and only runs on Windows. There were attempts to have gDrive to be able to read the files but afaik that never worked out.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hancom

Re: South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry

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Post by thewhitetulip » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:50 PM UTC

babakandishmand wrote: post #5

Curious if they'd roll out their own distro.

That will be too much work. Why not use well maintained existing distros?

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Post by bootlooped » Sat, May 18, 2019, 2:53 PM UTC

ducttape12 wrote: post #2

I remember hearing years ago IE usage was crazy high in South Korea because they had laws in place requiring all online banking customers to install an ActiveX control. If that's true... Then they've come pretty far.

Even after ActiveX was on the way out they still had some pretty wacky practices. Korean websites requiring users to install proprietary security software was not uncommon.