China has ordered government offices to replace foreign-branded PCs and associated operating systems with alternatives that can be locally maintained. This includes dumping Windows in favor of Linux.
I’m curious, does anyone know what distro they will be using, or will they be making one themselves? In which case, will it be based off another distro?
I’m curious too, but since I’ve been curious about this for two decades, I think it’s safe to say that they’ll be using Ubuntu Kylin, so based off Ubuntu.
There’s only two other non-phone Chinese OSes I know of, DeepIn and RedFlag and I never see either of them ever being mentioned in relation to the Chinese goverment.
Why is that?
I kind of liked Ubuntu.
It’s too bad their phone OS project failed, because it was a fun phone.
I haven’t used it years though as I now prefer Manjaro.
Canonical is just another capitalist corporation. They included an Amazon ad with the Unity desktop for a while, for example. They also created a packaging format called snap that has a proprietary backend, and then proceeded to modify the APT package manager to use snap instead where possible without users knowing. Ubuntu now also enables telemetry out of the box without telling users or having an easy way to disable all of it in the GUI. Basically, normal capitalist idiocy.
Canonical is the reason many people started to use linux, myself included. My first distro was Ubuntu 8.04 (a long long time ago). They are catering to the new users, which is why they do a lot of things that upset pro Linux users.
I’m curious, does anyone know what distro they will be using, or will they be making one themselves? In which case, will it be based off another distro?
They will most likely use a Deepin-based distro.
I’m curious too, but since I’ve been curious about this for two decades, I think it’s safe to say that they’ll be using Ubuntu Kylin, so based off Ubuntu.
There’s only two other non-phone Chinese OSes I know of, DeepIn and RedFlag and I never see either of them ever being mentioned in relation to the Chinese goverment.
That’s unfortunate if true. I don’t particularly like Canonical. I’d say Debian or directly Debian-based would be better.
Why is that?
I kind of liked Ubuntu.
It’s too bad their phone OS project failed, because it was a fun phone.
I haven’t used it years though as I now prefer Manjaro.
Canonical is just another capitalist corporation. They included an Amazon ad with the Unity desktop for a while, for example. They also created a packaging format called snap that has a proprietary backend, and then proceeded to modify the APT package manager to use snap instead where possible without users knowing. Ubuntu now also enables telemetry out of the box without telling users or having an easy way to disable all of it in the GUI. Basically, normal capitalist idiocy.
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Canonical is the reason many people started to use linux, myself included. My first distro was Ubuntu 8.04 (a long long time ago). They are catering to the new users, which is why they do a lot of things that upset pro Linux users.
Yes, I agree. They used to be a lot better. However, Amazon ads, snap, and telemetry in no way caters to or benefits new Linux users.
I switched when they made Unity default.