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Canonical and China Announce Ubuntu Collaboration

Posted by samzenpus on from the working-together dept.

First time accepted submitter GovCheese writes "Canonical, the software company that manages and funds Ubuntu, announced that the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will base their national reference architecture for standard operating systems on Ubuntu, and they will call it Kylin. Arguably China is the largest desktop market and the announcement has important implications. Shuttleworth says, 'The release of Ubuntu Kylin brings the Chinese open source community into the global Ubuntu community.'"

3 of 171 comments (clear)

  1. Great by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the Chinese like the idea of their official Linux distro coming with a keylogger pre-installed?

    Who would have guessed.

  2. Linux is now terrorism! by Trepidity · · Score: 5, Funny

    Waiting for some bright minds in Congress to start holding hearings into whether Communist OSs like Linux are responsible for cyberterrorism.

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    10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
  3. as long as it runs MSIE6 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    From using Chinese websites I thought their reference OS is Windows XP with MSIE 6. Try getting any Chinese banking or e-payment systems work on a non MSIE browser...good luck!