China to create home-grown operating system

China is working with software firm Canonical on an open-source operating system customised for Chinese users.

I suppose it's one way to avoid Windows 8!


BBC News Technology

 

Those seem to be very good news to Canonical

Funding from the China Government, and a market of millions and millions of users...

 

I hope they will put one out in English so we may try it
My wife is from China and I travel there all the time

 

This will be interesting.

But then everyone will say China has a backdoor in that OS and is spying on all of its users. /Sarcasm

 

This is true, but how will that be any different than Windows
not that I condone that kind of behavior, Let's hope if this OS
comes to be that it will be a good competitor without any backdoors

 

I think that it is predominantly for the Mandarin/Cantonese speaking market & so unless you read Chinese, & if it's released outside of China, it probably won't be particularly useful. You would possibly be just as well off with Ubuntu.

 

I believe the Chinese OS is called Fong Gu. Smile if you're Italian.

 

Does it means something in Italian?

 

Now that's what I'm talking about.

 

Yes it does but its a naughty word not allowed here.