China has ordered government offices to replace foreign-branded PCs and associated operating systems with alternatives that can be locally maintained. This includes dumping Windows in favor of Linux.
this is huge.
i figure this will accelerate maintenance and development of the linux kernel and related software.
other countries would be forced to pay attention and likely adopt linux to benefit from a growing community of support.
this is huge.
i figure this will accelerate maintenance and development of the linux kernel and related software.
other countries would be forced to pay attention and likely adopt linux to benefit from a growing community of support.
Alibaba were fined for releasing a security fix instead of telling the gov first. I think if anything the commits coming from there should be dropped