[TUHS] AIX moved into maintainance mode

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Fri Jan 20 03:46:53 AEST 2023


eh..

arnold at skeeve.com wrote in
 <202301191512.30JFCmmI017248 at freefriends.org>:
 |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.

..here a non-movable stand for the opposite.
(In fact China has always been my only hope.  That is about fourty
years now.)  But surely very off-topic.

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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