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Chinese distro (OpenKylin) made to provide independence from western technologies releses its first stable version (news.itsfoss.com)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] 35 points 3 years ago (14 children)

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

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years 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

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years 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.

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  • [+] -13 points 3 years ago* (8 children)

    Well, Achually, Linux is tecnically european...

    puts on nerd glasses

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Is Europe no longer considered western?

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  • [+] -20 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 children)

    Well... Personaly I would not consider it western being in between of the US and Asia...

    Edit: better clarification

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    Oh mate... You need to get out of America and see the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I am actually european... I live in greece... It is just that when i picture the map, i picture europe middle-west so i go with middle. Unless what we mean is the culture which by convention, you are correct... Damn... Now i actually feel like the nerd with the glasses... Not in the good way...

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