Solve : China's New Computer Operating System?

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Answer» For some time China has been making technical progress in many areas. Could they create a world class OS that would compete with WINDOWS, Mac OS or Linux? Yes, they can and it looks like they may already be there. This has the potential to undermine the major software companies of the western world. Not a joke! China already has millions s of people who speak and write Engloish. They have more English speakers than some states of the USA. So they could produce a new OS ALL in English and sell it cheaper that Apple or Microsoft. Here is a story just released a few days ago. Is China's New Computer Operating System a Threat? Quote Its first step was to stop government agencies from using Microsoft's most recent Windows 8 on their machines. But its latest project, to replace Windows altogether puts China into a new category as challenging US dominance in the ultra-sensitive computer operating system league. Controlling computers today is part and parcel of political POWER, and China understands this. That's why China is not only replacing Windows, but it wants to get rid of Apple's iOS and Google's Android too. It would be hard for a new OS to replace Windows since it will take some time for that OS to have enough applications available to make the switch worthwhile. China could ban the sale of Windows and other OSes and have a captive market within China but converting the Western world would definitely be an uphill battle.I wouldn't expect it to penetrate outside of China's Domestic market. The idea that they would be able to competently create a English-Language OS is pretty laughable though. Even the highest-end Chinese International companies who aim directly at European and American Markets cannot seem to competently translate their product. (Though it's POSSIBLE they offshore their translation to India, hah). The article is overly "optimistic" and naive. For example: Quote Certainly China will emerge as a heavy weight challenger to the likes of Microsoft, Google and Apple. We know very little about the Operating System "China" is supposedly creating (What will it look like? How will it act? Will it REQUIRE it's own special software programs? Can it run Windows or Linux Software? Will it be Open Source? etc), and yet the article is quick to say that it is "certain"- that is, they are saying that there is absolutely no doubt that this new Operating System on which we know very little will be a "heavyweight challenger" to existing OS vendors. That is pretty silly. While it is clearly going to be a "Challenger" on the domestic market because the CCP can basically ban anything else (it's already banned Windows Software from government systems), And it will no doubt strengthen the great firewall of China, I don't think there is even a chance of it gaining any traction outside of China for two reasons. The first reason is that They aren't going to be pushing it internationally. The entire point of the new OS is entirely for Domestic use- and it makes sense that a Government would kind of rather not be using software created by a company in another country for their core internal processes. The second reason is that few people outside of China are going to want to use a Chinese-made OS for the same reason the Chinese government wouldn't want to use a U.S-made OS. Outside China there isn't going to be any domestic pressure to use the OS and it's unlikely to be COMPATIBLE with Windows or Linux- it certainly won't be running executables and programs from either, so for software you would end up relying on Chinese companies as well. (Unless, as I have a suspicion, this is just a fork or distribution of Linux being approved by the CCP in which case well that was much ado about nothing).Quote The idea that they would be able to competently create a English-Language OS is pretty laughable though. " All your base belong to us".... This topic is now a popular search item on Google. Here is something from Wikipedia about Kylin Quote an operating system developed by academics at the National University of Defense Technology in the People's Republic of China since 2001. It is named after the mythical beast qilin. But it is not certain this is the current project. Wikipedia goes on to say: Quote ... The first versions were based on FreeBSD and were intended for use by the Chinese military and other government organizations. With version 3.0 Kylin became Linux-based, and there is a version called NeoKylin which was announced in 2010. In 2013, it was announced that a new Linux-based operating system with the same name would be released using Ubuntu. The first version, Ubuntu Kylin 13.04, was released on 25 April 2013 This just came up on the radar: http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntukylin Quote Ubuntu Kylin is an official Ubuntu subproject whose goal is to create a variant of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users using the Simplified Chinese writing system. The project provides a delicate, thoughtful and fully customised Chinese user experience out-of-the-box by providing a desktop user interface localised into Simplified Chinese and with software generally preferred by many Chinese users. Image is from link above. So is this sit? Or is it something else?

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For some time China has been making technical progress in many areas. Could they create a world class OS that would compete with WINDOWS, Mac OS or Linux? Yes, they can and it looks like they may already be there. This has the potential to undermine the major software companies of the western world.
Not a joke! China already has millions s of people who speak and write Engloish. They have more English speakers than some states of the USA. So they could produce a new OS ALL in English and sell it cheaper that Apple or Microsoft.

Here is a story just released a few days ago.
Is China's New Computer Operating System a Threat?
Quote

Its first step was to stop government agencies from using Microsoft's most recent Windows 8 on their machines. But its latest project, to replace Windows altogether puts China into a new category as challenging US dominance in the ultra-sensitive computer operating system league. Controlling computers today is part and parcel of political POWER, and China understands this. That's why China is not only replacing Windows, but it wants to get rid of Apple's iOS and Google's Android too.

It would be hard for a new OS to replace Windows since it will take some time for that OS to have enough applications available to make the switch worthwhile. China could ban the sale of Windows and other OSes and have a captive market within China but converting the Western world would definitely be an uphill battle.I wouldn't expect it to penetrate outside of China's Domestic market.

The idea that they would be able to competently create a English-Language OS is pretty laughable though. Even the highest-end Chinese International companies who aim directly at European and American Markets cannot seem to competently translate their product. (Though it's POSSIBLE they offshore their translation to India, hah).

The article is overly "optimistic" and naive. For example:

Quote

Certainly China will emerge as a heavy weight challenger to the likes of Microsoft, Google and Apple.

We know very little about the Operating System "China" is supposedly creating (What will it look like? How will it act? Will it REQUIRE it's own special software programs? Can it run Windows or Linux Software? Will it be Open Source? etc), and yet the article is quick to say that it is "certain"- that is, they are saying that there is absolutely no doubt that this new Operating System on which we know very little will be a "heavyweight challenger" to existing OS vendors.

That is pretty silly. While it is clearly going to be a "Challenger" on the domestic market because the CCP can basically ban anything else (it's already banned Windows Software from government systems), And it will no doubt strengthen the great firewall of China, I don't think there is even a chance of it gaining any traction outside of China for two reasons. The first reason is that They aren't going to be pushing it internationally. The entire point of the new OS is entirely for Domestic use- and it makes sense that a Government would kind of rather not be using software created by a company in another country for their core internal processes. The second reason is that few people outside of China are going to want to use a Chinese-made OS for the same reason the Chinese government wouldn't want to use a U.S-made OS. Outside China there isn't going to be any domestic pressure to use the OS and it's unlikely to be COMPATIBLE with Windows or Linux- it certainly won't be running executables and programs from either, so for software you would end up relying on Chinese companies as well. (Unless, as I have a suspicion, this is just a fork or distribution of Linux being approved by the CCP in which case well that was much ado about nothing).Quote

The idea that they would be able to competently create a English-Language OS is pretty laughable though.

" All your base belong to us"....

This topic is now a popular search item on Google.
Here is something from Wikipedia about Kylin
Quote

an operating system developed by academics at the National University of Defense Technology in the People's Republic of China since 2001. It is named after the mythical beast qilin.

But it is not certain this is the current project. Wikipedia goes on to say:
Quote

...
The first versions were based on FreeBSD and were intended for use by the Chinese military and other government organizations. With version 3.0 Kylin became Linux-based, and there is a version called NeoKylin which was announced in 2010.
In 2013, it was announced that a new Linux-based operating system with the same name would be released using Ubuntu. The first version, Ubuntu Kylin 13.04, was released on 25 April 2013

This just came up on the radar:
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntukylin
Quote

Ubuntu Kylin is an official Ubuntu subproject whose goal is to create a variant of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users using the Simplified Chinese writing system. The project provides a delicate, thoughtful and fully customised Chinese user experience out-of-the-box by providing a desktop user interface localised into Simplified Chinese and with software generally preferred by many Chinese users.

Image is from link above.

So is this sit? Or is it something else?

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