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Chinese distro (OpenKylin) made to provide independence from western technologies releses its first stable version (news.itsfoss.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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OpenKylin is already starting to be implemented on government systems and private companies all around China.

Edit: This is what was written on the website.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Lol is it really free of Western technologies if it's running on Linux?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I think it only uses western dependencies if they are open source. Even if linux somehow got weaponised against China (hard to imagine this as it goes against the very basics of Open Source), they could still use the older kernel releases and fork from that.

Linux kernel isn’t western or finnish, because you don’t need to trust westerners of finns to use it. Wherever you live, linux kernel is yours

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

GNU/Linux technologies were founded in the west, but are contributed to by people all over the world. I also feel like the ideology and philosophy behind them are in stark contrast to the "western" ideologies of capitalism and imperialism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the kicker: the config files show 99% were extracted from Debian Linux. Own Chinese distro, my ass.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

the config files show 99% were extracted from Debian Linux

Can you provide a source for that?