From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 20907 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2023 18:42:26 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 19 Jan 2023 18:42:26 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A86B42493; Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:42:20 +1000 (AEST) Received: from sdaoden.eu (sdaoden.eu [217.144.132.164]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1256242492 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2023 04:42:17 +1000 (AEST) Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2023 18:46:53 +0100 Author: Steffen Nurpmeso From: Steffen Nurpmeso To: arnold@skeeve.com Message-ID: <20230119174653.-LlRf%steffen@sdaoden.eu> In-Reply-To: <202301191512.30JFCmmI017248@freefriends.org> References: <202301180943.30I9hrOw030485@freefriends.org> <202301181513.30IFDDUJ015224@freefriends.org> <20230118151446.GD2964@mcvoy.com> <20230118161959.GE2964@mcvoy.com> <2f00f9a6-c57d-8490-4066-931ec6e191cd@gmail.com> <20230118164242.GG2964@mcvoy.com> <202301191512.30JFCmmI017248@freefriends.org> Mail-Followup-To: arnold@skeeve.com, tuhs@tuhs.org, lproven@gmail.com User-Agent: s-nail v14.9.24-398-g20005f74ec OpenPGP: id=EE19E1C1F2F7054F8D3954D8308964B51883A0DD; url=https://ftp.sdaoden.eu/steffen.asc; preference=signencrypt BlahBlahBlah: Any stupid boy can crush a beetle. But all the professors in the world can make no bugs. Message-ID-Hash: AFMZ6NTNUOTMSHBKM2GF2D3RT5QU3HDM X-Message-ID-Hash: AFMZ6NTNUOTMSHBKM2GF2D3RT5QU3HDM X-MailFrom: steffen@sdaoden.eu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org, lproven@gmail.com X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: eh.. arnold@skeeve.com wrote in <202301191512.30JFCmmI017248@freefriends.org>: |Liam Proven wrote: |> Secondly, the PRoC has a "5-3-2 programme" in place to compel all |> organisations to move to Linux and get rid of American OSes. Last year |> was the nominal completion when 98% of machines were to have been |> replaced or reinstalled; the assumption was that there would be at |> least 2% of Windows boxes that they _couldn't_ readily replace. |> |> https://www.theregister.com/2019/12/09/china_orders_ban_on_us_computers_\ |> and_software/ |> |> I've looked at OpenKylin. It's Ubuntu. Deepin is Debian underneath |> although they're planning to move away from it. | |OK, so far so good for the numbers, but how much do those distributions |let the PROC government monitor what its citizens are doing? There |are political, non-technical reasons to avoid anything coming out |of China. And yes, this is even way more off topic. ..here a non-movable stand for the opposite. (In fact China has always been my only hope. That is about fourty years now.) But surely very off-topic. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)