Saturday, March 23, 2013

China chooses Ubuntu for a national reference OS coming in April

China chooses Ubuntu for a national reference OS coming in April

China's government and people have historically been friendly toward Linux, although not quite on the level of a new deal with Canonical. The country's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is teaming with Canonical to create Ubuntu Kylin, a variant of the regular Linux distribution that would serve as a reference point for local hardware and software developers. A Raring Ringtail-based build due this April should bring Chinese calendars, character input methods and quick access to relevant music services. Later Kylin releases should integrate Baidu mapping, mass transit information, Taobao shopping and a common slate of photo editing and system tools from WPS. The hope is to foster open source development in China as part of a five-year government growth plan -- and, we suspect, get away from closed operating systems that Americans control.

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Via: The Register

Source: Canonical

Source: http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~3/yh2SE0Mig1o/

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