19 Jan
2023
19 Jan
'23
11:46 p.m.
eh..
arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote in
<202301191512.30JFCmmI017248(a)freefriends.org>:
|Liam Proven <lproven(a)gmail.com> wrote:
|> Secondly, the PRoC has a "5-3-2 programme" in place to compel all
|> organisations to move to Linux and get rid of American OSes. Last year
|> was the nominal completion when 98% of machines were to have been
|> replaced or reinstalled; the assumption was that there would be at
|> least 2% of Windows boxes that they _couldn't_ readily replace.
|>
|> https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/09/china_orders_ban_on_us_computers_\
|> and_software/
|>
|> I've looked at OpenKylin. It's Ubuntu. Deepin is Debian underneath
|> although they're planning to move away from it.
|
|OK, so far so good for the numbers, but how much do those distributions
|let the PROC government monitor what its citizens are doing? There
|are political, non-technical reasons to avoid anything coming out
|of China. And yes, this is even way more off topic.
..here a non-movable stand for the opposite.
(In fact China has always been my only hope. That is about fourty
years now.) But surely very off-topic.
--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)