Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US hacking

Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by bradhe on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:42PM (#20033595)

> Beijing officials have decided to develop a custom operating system that will replace the Windows OS on computers used by the Chinese military.

Okay. Good luck with that.

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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by lostmsu on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:09PM (#20033868)

I wonder if they will use ReactOS.

It is Windows-compatible.

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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by craftyguy on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:44PM (#20033620)

You act like it is hard to run an OS on a computer that is not windows (hint: it is not.)

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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by bradhe on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @03:50PM (#20033674)

Creating a custom OS from scratch that's somehow more secure than a system that's 40 years old will be a real interesting feat.

If they base it on Linux (didn't see evidence of that but didn't get that far in to the article) then that'll give them some head start.

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Re:Chinese military to replace Windows OS amid fears of US h... by craftyguy on Sunday June 02, 2019 @07:42PM (#20079204)

Who said they were creating one from scratch?

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