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China issues guidelines to phase out use of Intel and AMD chips, Windows operating systems and foreign centralized database systems in government computers. (www.reuters.com)

submitted 7 months ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/china@lemmygrad.ml

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[–] relay@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Will this be year of the linux desktop?

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Chinese government switching to Linux would result in a huge uptick in usage, and I expect we'll see secondary effects from businesses that work with the government as well.

[–] porcupine@lemmygrad.ml 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Can't wait to see US state and federal governments posting cybersecurity bulletins about the threat of Linux based software's vulnerability to foreign adversary activity, prohibiting its use on US government systems or contracting with companies that use it.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 17 points 7 months ago

That's when you hit them with, "it's not Linux technically, it's Gnu+Linux".

[–] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 7 months ago

Ah jeez thta would be dumb.