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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

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Post by nsonnad »

cyorir wrote: post #10

The 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?

Hello, I'm the author of this article. From what I can tell it appears that both NeoKylin and Ubuntu Kylin (a collab between Chinese state actors and Canonical) have simply adopted the Kylin name purely for its familiarity as meaning "Chinese OS." The original Kylin was a government project based on FreeBSD whereas NeoKylin:Fedora::UbuntuKylin:Ubuntu

Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows

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kalleboo wrote: post #7

Man 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?

Yeah, it was a huge pain. I usually deal with fast GIFs by left clicking on the GIF at the required frame and then dragging that away from the GIF. That's the only way I can deal with such GIFs other than decompiling.

Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows

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Post by jarcane »

userulluipeste wrote: post #13

Their efforts could have been actually beneficial for everybody if they decided to contribute to ReactOS. That way they could have had something instead of LibreOffice skins and a dead-end Linux fork.

Considering the Russians have been footing the bill for ReactOS for a while now and it's still no closer to being actually usable, I highly doubt it would make the slightest difference.

Re: A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to replace Windows

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Post by scholia »

nsonnad wrote: post #11
cyorir wrote: post #10

The 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?

Hello, I'm the author of this article. From what I can tell it appears that both NeoKylin and Ubuntu Kylin (a collab between Chinese state actors and Canonical) have simply adopted the Kylin name purely for its familiarity as meaning "Chinese OS." The original Kylin was a government project based on FreeBSD whereas NeoKylin:Fedora::UbuntuKylin:Ubuntu

"That’s pretty ironic, given how similar it feels to a product made by Microsoft, long the enemy of open-source Linux evangelists."

You're a few years behind the times ;-)

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