more linux replacing windows is music to my ears
if china goes all linux it might mean more and better drivers as well as software
but there's that nagging voice in the back of my head that worries about china possibly taking a lead position on OS devellopment. One of the reasons they want linux is probably to employ censorship on the Operating System level, I wonder if that will influence distros for the "free-er" world
*not sure where to put this thread, please move if not apropriate*
Would think with a population of 1,344,130,000 and huge public sector, picking a government OS based on licensing costs my be more of a issue then censorship?
i hope you're right, but considering the effort china puts in their censorship infrastructure (apparently it's semi conscious) i wouldn't put it past them.
Well, it's not Ubuntu, It's Kylin, an adapted version of Ubuntu with some "improvements" by the Chinese government... Wow, just shows what degree of prostitution Canonical is capable of, they really are like Apple, they just leech of the Open Source community in my opinion. After Ubuntu 10.04, it went downhill fast with Canonical's integrity, open source mindset and quality. Never was a big Ubuntu user, but since the 12.10 beta I have a deep mistrust in Canonical. And I also think that Canonical has signed it's own death sentence with the Open Source community, much like Steve Jobs after he stole BSD/BeOS for Next/MacOS: first the Amazon spyware scandal, than the Wayland criticism scandal, now the China gate scandal... yeah... just wow...
how far its come from the 7.0 and 8.4 days... pulseaudio still sucks
i never used ubuntu, so i can't judge, but if canonical is whoring itself out to evil money, they could use the money to improve the linux market for end-user software, games & hard-ware-compatibility and the light side of the force (i.e: distros with integrity) could benefit too.
from the looks of it steam is probably going to run on other distros than just ubuntu based. I kinda got steam running on my debian (used the installer from GhostSquad57 on github)
I see a chance that i will be able to ditch windows completely in 1 to 2 years, no more Microsoft tax or crap like genuine, just play to games. I feel like Ubutuntu helped towards that end