Canonical and China Announce Ubuntu Collaboration 171
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First time accepted submitter GovCheese writes "Canonical, the software company that manages and funds Ubuntu, announced that the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will base their national reference architecture for standard operating systems on Ubuntu, and they will call it Kylin. Arguably China is the largest desktop market and the announcement has important implications. Shuttleworth says, 'The release of Ubuntu Kylin brings the Chinese open source community into the global Ubuntu community.'"
Re:Poor decisions lately Mr. Shuttleworth? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I wonder if Shuttleworth knows what he's doing (Score:5, Informative)
It's a "qílín" ("qinlin", if Slashdot eats the markup): a mythical Chinese creature that is "said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a wise sage or an illustrious ruler." Make of that, what you will.
Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qilin [wikipedia.org]
Oh... I've just thought of something interesting: I wonder if the name (as a "creature") was also choosen as a counter-force to the Chinese Grass Mud Horse [wikipedia.org] meme of a little while ago??
Oh, well done Chinese leaders, well done. /slowgolfclap
Re:Goodbye Red Flag Linux? (Score:5, Informative)