19 Jan
2023
19 Jan
'23
9:12 p.m.
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…
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.
Arnold