Yes it is. But development in China is very thin and uneven. The large
cities were developed sooner and that was before China adopted a
national standard. But large parts of China have yet to see working
computers and, when development gets that far, the government will want
them with the new standard.
I skype once a week with someone in Hong Kong who is sitting at a
Windows XP Computer in an internet cafe. I have only been in China to
change planes in Beijing, but I thought that a world class airport that
didn't have single western fast food stand was a little odd. The flight
attendants didn't speak English either.
And the only newspapers available on Air China were government approved
ones like the Beijing People's Daily. The in flight movie was Chairman
Mao beating the crap out of General Chiang Kai Shek's Army!!! It's hard
to walk out on a bad movie at 35000 feet.
If you dig hard enough on google, you will find a Linux wallpaper with
the hammer and cycle. They weren't kidding. Now our national anthem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UctriMuXYS0
On 12-12-27 07:26 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
On Thursday, December 27, 2012 19:02:06, Mark Wallace wrote:
I've never run 13. It is possible that the boot up problem is a new
bug, as 14 has only been out a short time. I did hear about it on the
web, so I am not alone. I did a one distro only install on a zero
filled hard drive, so it has to be a Mint 14 problem.
...
And I can't believe this but the last time that I checked Hudson Valley
Federal Credit Union still had Windows Millennium at some of their
teller's windows!
China is 1/4 of the world's population and adopted Linux as their
desktop standard.
Last I looked Windows was the most popular OS in China. Still very much looks
the same now.
http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-CN-monthly-201111-201211
They have a government sponsored distro of Linux
(red hat and red book?).
Red Flag Linux
http://www.circleid.com/posts/china_internet_cafes_microsoft_to_chinese_os/
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