[TUHS] AIX moved into maintainance mode

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Fri Jan 20 01:12:48 AEST 2023


Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> Secondly, the PRoC has a "5-3-2 programme" in place to compel all
> organisations to move to Linux and get rid of American OSes. Last year
> was the nominal completion when 98% of machines were to have been
> replaced or reinstalled; the assumption was that there would be at
> least 2% of Windows boxes that they _couldn't_ readily replace.
>
> https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/09/china_orders_ban_on_us_computers_and_software/
>
> I've looked at OpenKylin. It's Ubuntu. Deepin is Debian underneath
> although they're planning to move away from it.

OK, so far so good for the numbers, but how much do those distributions
let the PROC government monitor what its citizens are doing? There
are political, non-technical reasons to avoid anything coming out
of China. And yes, this is even way more off topic.

Arnold


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