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Re:A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to re... by wsterling on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:13PM (#10273434)
Can we please stop referring to spins and skins of existing Linux distributions as a whole new OS? There doesn't appear to be much hear that a highschool kid could not do in a few days. Pretty under whelming for an effort of a nation state of 1.3 billion people.
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Re:A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to re... by intopieces on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:43PM (#10273677)
What does the population have to do with the complexity of the OS project?
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Re:A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to re... by wsterling on Thursday September 24, 2015 @02:58PM (#10273788)
It has a direct impact on the resources the state has available to it.
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Re:A first look at the OS the Chinese government wants to re... by intopieces on Friday September 25, 2015 @06:17PM (#10281050)
True, but when we've already established that this kind of project is trivial in nature, does that really come into play here? North Korea built their own OS based off of linux, and they've not nearly the population of China.
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