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I doubt they'll pick stock Ubuntu if they did. They'll probably hack together their own build (or one based on Mint) with added state-monitoring goodness and fo
by eksith 14y ago
I doubt they'll pick stock Ubuntu if they did. They'll probably hack together their own build (or one based on Mint) with added state-monitoring goodness and force their people to use that instead. But I don't think they'll go to that extreme. New China, while retaining some of the old traits, is somewhat more sensitive to social media than Old China. They know people are not as willing to shut up and accept what's given to them these days.
Incidentally, I wonder if someone has put together an upgrade message that we could all use on our sites in the interim to visitors from China (preferably in simplified Chinese). It certainly wouldn't hurt for them to know there are other choices available besides IE or Maxthon.
- socillion 14y agoThey're actually working with Canonical to get modifications and application ports. http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical-and-chinese-standards-body-announce-ubuntu-collaboration http://www.canonical.com/content/canonical-and-chinese-stand... http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Ubuntu-China-Kylin-CISP-Chinese-Ministry,21676.html http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Ubuntu-China-Kylin-CISP-Chi...
- eksith 14y agoWell, this is new to me. Thanks for sharing this! :) I hope Canonical will stick to just getting language compatibility, streamlining and just plain consistency when they finally release rather than helping with government monitoring and censorship. If the government does take the end product and introduce these, there's nothing much that can be done, except making sure the sources are widely available for study. At least, that would make the officials reluctant to stick blatant examples of monitoring.