As I recall, this sort of public statement is used as a lever to squeeze some discounts out of Microsoft's Enterprise Sales team before the government "decides" to stay with Windows.
And suddenly three new Microsoft HQs appeared in SK.
South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
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Re: South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
#52I 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.
Most Chinese banks still do, some even require you to install a service, some don't support Chrome.
This is similar to Brazilian banks too. Both public and private.
They stoped using ActiveX in the 00s but then started requiring the user to install some rootkit-like security software that was nearly impossible to uninstall and was probably able to spy on users.
Now they some of them have an app that is basically a bundled browser accessing their regular website.
Re: South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
#53As I recall, this sort of public statement is used as a lever to squeeze some discounts out of Microsoft's Enterprise Sales team before the government "decides" to stay with Windows.
Yeah, they're not going to do it. Or do you think they could ever stand to be seen as running the exact same OS as their northern, uh, neighbors? I mean, let's get real.
Doesn't NK have it's own special linux distro?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, they're not going to do it. Or do you think they could ever stand to be seen as running the exact same OS as their northern, uh, neighbors? I mean, let's get real.
Doesn't NK have it's own special linux distro?
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Re: South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
#56As I recall, this sort of public statement is used as a lever to squeeze some discounts out of Microsoft's Enterprise Sales team before the government "decides" to stay with Windows.
With more things running on Web I think they could probably do partial transition of some computers.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lighter and easier to manage than 10... why not?
Can't run Windows 7 on Skylake and greater chipsets.
Intel i5 6600K on a Z170 with Windows 7 reporting in, that statement is definitely not true.
Installing is not straightforward though, you have to load drivers into the installation environment if you're using M.2 or USB 3.x.
IMHO the effort I need to learn that causes me far less frustration than having to use Windows 10. My total experience (helping colleagues/friends with their Win 10 systems) is probably less than 60 minutes in total, but one look at that start menu with actual internet-loaded ads (!) was enough to dissuade me from ever installing that OS on any of my systems. If they're greedy enough to blatantly do that, who knows what kinds of other dark patterns lurk within that OS...
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#58Hurray!
Re: South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
#59I 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…
If I remember correctly, the ActiveX widget provided home-grown encryption, because in the 90s, 40-bit encryption was the most you could export from the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Re: South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry
#60They should author KBSD (KoreanBSD)! We need more OS competiton.