Japan, China, S Korea Agree To Standardize Linux

Ooi writes "Japan Today News reports: 'The governments of Japan, China and South Korea have agreed to work together to come up with an alternative computer operating system to reduce reliance on Microsoft's Windows, the Yomiuri and Nihon Keizai newspapers reported Sunday. According to the reports, the three countries will help their private sectors develop Linux, an open-source OS that can be copied and modified freely. The agreement was signed in Beijing on Saturday by senior government officials from the three countries.' Australian IT has an article on the issue prior to the meeting." A few weeks ago, I spoke at the Asia OSS meeting in Hanoi of which the three gov'ts above are also members. There's a very serious commitment to OSS especially among the governments represented there.

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Nano

[Gleef]

Nano is great, whenever I'm training a Windows-trained sysadmin for a Linux system, that's the first editor I throw at them. It's easy to use, and doesn't confuse the issue with either inscrutable modes or forgettable key combinations. In its default mode it even tells you the most important control keys on screen.

These people don't need much in an editor, just editing a few config files and maybe writing a short script. Nano does it easily.

Of course, I don't know how well it works with CJK scripts, I suspect badly, so it won't work well for this group.