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Chinese distro (OpenKylin) made to provide independence from western technologies releses its first stable version (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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OpenKylin is already starting to be implemented on government systems and private companies all around China.

Edit: This is what was written on the website.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a Linux distro with spyware baked into it

I'm guessing there's no proof to back this up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Of course there's not. It's a reflex: China → malicious. It doesn't require evidence and, since it's not normally questioned in daily discourse, the person saying it seemingly never questions whether it makes any sense to make such a baseless claim.