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Re:Russia plans Linux-based mobile operating system to rival... by Animats on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @12:36AM (#9574701)
China has tried this twice. There was Red Flag Linux [1](2000-2014) and the China Operating System.(2014-?)[2]. Neither appeared on mass produced devices. Still, I expect that eventually Shentzen will dump US-based OSs for something else.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COS_%28operating_system%29

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Re:Russia plans Linux-based mobile operating system to rival... by martin1975 on Wednesday May 20, 2015 @02:08AM (#9574877)
Tizen, since Samsung's all over it like a cheap suit. And South Korea is a lot closer than the USA and far more easily controllable/nuke-able if they misbehave and put backdoors into Tizen. I could definitely see Tizen becoming China's next mobile OS.
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