- Ubuntu KylinPosted on 04/25/2014 7:14:59 AM PDT by ShadowAce
- Ubuntu Kylin
| China is one of the countries that have suffered the most when Microsoft decided to pull the plug on Windows XP. The Chinese government is now looking towards Linux to fill that gap, and it intends to use its resources to make that happen. China has been struggling for years to make its own Linux operating system, but it had little success. At one point it had something called the Red Flag Linux distribution, but the project never really got off the ground and lost all support from the Chinese government. Microsoft's decision to stop issuing security updates for Windows XP has determined the Chinese authorities to start looking for answers, and it seems that Linux might be the solution. Windows XP still occupies a large portion of the market, with a little over 50%, so it's understandable why they might consider that it's time for a change. According to a report made by news.xinhuanet.com, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is looking to provide the needed support for an operating system that is ready to replace Windows XP. “The ministry will beef up support for the development of such an OS.The shutdown will bring risks directly to China's basic telecommunication networks and threaten its overall security,” said Zhang Feng, the chief engineer of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. There are numerous other Linux distributions that would gladly take the opportunity to expand into such a large market, including Red Hat, which is a commercial enterprise. The best positioned operating system right now that could do the job is Ubuntu Kylin, a new Ubuntu flavor that was first released a little over a year ago. It may be an official Ubuntu flavor, but the Ubuntu developers are not involved in the project. It's being built by Chinese programmers and focuses on that particular culture, with its own apps and governing principles. What's even more interesting is that the developers of Ubuntu Kylin are already working with China's National University of Defense Technology and The China Software and Integrated Chip Promotions Center, which means that they are definitely on the Chinese government's radar. It remains to be seen if Linux or Ubuntu Kylin will manage to make an impact in China. You can imagine that Microsoft will not sit idle and will most likely make some very hard to resist offers. |
Forgot to mention.. yes, I am a guild leader on WoW.. :D and it runs great on Linux ;^)
About running XP.. get Linux.. then Oricle VB (VirtualBox).. You can run the XP inside Linux (sandbox, at that) ;^)
RHEL, CentOS, Fedora
Netflix — just an observation.
Mint. I'll check it out. I am due an upgrade — I am still running Ubuntu 10.04 because I like the old icon style desktop. Plus it works perfectly on my dell laptop.
I had a bad experience with Linux a few years ago searching for drivers for all of my hardware. I spent hours and hours searching the net (that is what I meant about "google is your friend"). Some people probably enjoy it and I did for the first couple of days.
Anyway, I am a little hesitant to upgrade since I have had such good luck with Ubuntu 10.04. The good news is that you can test drive it before installing it so I'll probably do that.
Ya. Sounds like a cool idea. Thanks.
I had many ‘bad starts’ with Linux.. I tested pretty much every year since about 2000.. Wasn’t satisfied until about 3-4 years ago. I still like DOS.. :p I hated Win then, still do. But, I had to move on.
Sadly, we lost DOS and were forced to use Windows. I don’t thing Windows itself was weened off of DOS until Win 7... all previous had the DOS shell..
Taking it further, Mac/Apple, are ALL based on Unix!! :D (they will never admit that ;)).. DOS is a mix of simple commands (you used to have to know what you were doing to be able to do anything with the PC ;) that were mixed with Unix.. Heck, I could FTP from DOS (with a dial-up) to a UNIX machine back then :p
Exactly.
I just remember having a lot of “fun” with Fedora when I was trying to install it on my PC. Damn!
Then someone pointed me to Ubuntu. Even at the time Ubuntu had its issues. But it has come a VERY long way works very well AND it is still free.
GRR.. trying to get multiple screenshot.. but running off of 2 vid cards,, it won’t capture both :/ (one is Linux (running OS), and one is Windows (VB)..
Correction (from my previous post)... I said CentOS is “FROM”.. I meant “FOR” (Corporations).
DOS. Sounds like you are one of those “command line” persons. Then you'd love Linux. :)
I remember those DOS days — command.sys and autoexec.bat. Lol.
Apple? BSD right?
Oh, what fun I would have if I had more free time.
Even running XP in Win7 has its issues. We do this with a number of PCs at work.
I originally started on a system that was either assemble/machine language... or you could type in the ‘basic’ language.. only i/o was cassette tape. (basic).. Of course, we had 8 inch drives back then.. but not available publicly (and I was 10yo.. what did I know ;)
> Sound like you are one of those people; an engineer?
Correct on both counts.
:)
> How about if they target one distribution. For example, a
> consumer app might be best suited for Ubuntu. Certainly
> not fedora or the more techie distributions that are
> targeted at developers.
Actually there already is some of that. For example, there are considerably more user-oriented packages for Ubuntu than there are for RHEL for the reasons you noted.
Such packeges are easily installed with the distribution’s package manager.
However, those of use making use of the more techy distros are not one-dimensional creatures. Many of us are artists, audiophiles, and videophiles, and we’d like to have those applications run natively on our distribution of choice.
For such distributions, the source code is provided so that the application can be compiled natively. However, compiling natively often involves hunting down other packages that the app depends on (dependencies), because the native package manager cannot resolve them.
The reason that virtually all high-end image/video/audio software is developed for both Windows and Mac is that each platform has only one distribution, and support is typically only required for two major OS realeases at any one time.
I would venture that it is possible that, collectively, Linux distributions outnumber Mac, but there are just too many of them, and some, like Fedora, are moving targets, while Mac is monolithic and stable.
Thankfully, we have the virtual machine. You can run your favorite Linux distro and windows on the same hardware platform at the same time.
This requires powerful, multi-core processors that support virtualization. Also, a “virtual host” should have considerably more memory and disk space to supply its “virtual guest” with a good working environment.
VirtualBox (free from Oracle) even has a “seamless desktop”, where both OS’s share the same desktop. You have two taskbars, one for Linux, one for Windows, and their respective apps materialize on the same desktop. This “seamless desktop” seems to be very fussy about the graphics engine, so you may want to do some research before getting frustrated with it.
There are cross-platform development environments, like Qt and Wx, so you can write apps that run on a number of different platforms, iOS, Windows, MacOs, Linuxes, Android, etc, but the apps I’m typically interested in are not developed this way. So, I use the virtual machine.
IF you want to sand box (a Win system... always best to sandbox it FROM a Win system.. that way, no worries about drivers/dlls..)...
Running a Win VB in Linux is a real pian, but can be done... I have experienced this prob 2 fold... I have build my own systems since about 1985... all AMD.. AMD isn’t always ‘userfriendly’..
ROTFLMAO! You beat me to it. And part of the reason that Iran had that little Stuxnet problem was the same thing.
I love my Linux boxes but no one in my family I've showed them to is willing to invest the time on learning curve. I get that. Part of the reason that Microsoft went so heavily toward the cellphone paradigm in Win8 was the notion that this was going to be - no, rather mistakenly that it already was - a sort of universal interface that would get around the learning curve problem. Metro proved them wrong, although it isn't actually all that bad on a datapad.
Nevertheless, I'll keep my Linux boxes, thanks. I'm a geek.
I'd consider being able to run Netflix a bit more general and not specialized.
Yes, you may need to upgrade.
Netflix can run under Ubuntu and other distros. The issue revolves around DRM and Silverlight.
Do a google search on Pipelight. It is a straightforward solution that is available.
I worked for DEC and remember people telling stories like yours. Lol.
But I bet it paid off for you. You probably rode “the wave” all the way from the beginning to now.
I first started in the early 80s and the IBM PC. I wrote term papers on my parents old Apple IIe.
My wife and I bought our first PC, a 286, and word perfect, lotus 123, in 1988 for $2000! It took us a while to pay it off but it was worth it. My wife was going to college at the time.
Wow. Thanks for the information.
Marking for later.
Will do. Thanks.
Sounds like it is time for me to upgrade.
I remember being sent to a web page and installing a program and it not working. I gave up. It wasn’t that important, though.
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