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Korea Replacing 120,000 Windows with Linux

Posted by HeUnique on from the windows->-Linux dept.

The Korean government has just signed a contract with Hancom to purchase 120,000 copies of HancomLinux Deluxe 2.0 (which is basically Red Hat OS + tweaks + korean language support + KDE localized) and HancomOffice 2.0. Thats quite a big achievement. Here is Hancom's Press Release about it.

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  1. Hopefully this will start a trend by Guillaume+Ross · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Then everyone in the world will use Linux and will want it to be bloated, then there will be thousands of viruses for it. Do we linux users really want it to become really user friendly and popular? It works for ME and that's all I care about..

  2. World's gonna end by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Look, I know you people won't believe me but here it goes anyway.

    The world's gonna end in two months. There's a huge asteroid heading for us and there's nothing we can do. It's 5 km in diameter. That makes it a planet killer.

    Both us and the Russians have known about this for months. I learned about it two weeks ago and I've been drinking for the last six days.

    Fortunately I'm not married nor do I have kids.

    I pity you.

  3. Great. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Another 120,000 soon-to-be Ramen infected machines. Better add more space to my logging partition.

  4. What I'm looking forward to... by SpinyNorman · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    Is 120,000 South Koreans sending emails spreading the good word from commrade Stallman to any North Koreans who sends them .doc attachments. It'll probably start a war.

  5. Re:Good for Self-Sufficiency by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mexico and China .. two industrial leaders of the world.
    How more pathetic can you get ?

  6. Re:sloppy journalism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't know! They all look the same!

  7. Re:sloppy journalism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Arn't they all Chinese?