S. Korean government to switch to Linux: Ministry

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▶S. Korean government to switch to Linux: Ministry Anonymous 05/21/19 (Tue) 15:41:02 No.1064998>>1065002 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]

The (South Korean) government will switch the operating system of its computers from Windows to Linux, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Thursday.

>The Interior Ministry said the ministry will be test-running Linux on its PCs, and if no security issues arise, Linux systems will be introduced more widely within the government.

>The decision comes amid concerns about the cost of continuing to maintain Windows, as Microsoft’s free technical support for Windows 7 expires in January 2020.

>The transition to Linux OS and the purchase of new PCs are expected to cost the government about 780 billion won ($655 million), the ministry said.

>Before the government-wide adoption, the ministry said it would test if the system could be run on private networked devices without security risks and if compatibility could be achieved with existing websites and software which have been built to run on Windows.

>The ministry’s digital service bureau chief Choi Jang-hyuk said the ministry expects cost reductions through the introduction of the open-source OS and also hopes to avoid building reliance on a single operating system.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20190517000378

http://archive.fo/hQ7SR

▶Anonymous 05/21/19 (Tue) 15:52:37 No.1065002>>1065074 >>1065245

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>>1064998 (OP)

Maybe Linux developers will finally take their OS seriously, or let in people who want to take it seriously.

▶Anonymous 05/21/19 (Tue) 16:34:44 No.1065010

The reason western governments are so reliant on Windows is because of the corrupt politians who undo all the efforts to switch gov PCs to Linux.

t. Windows user

▶Anonymous 05/21/19 (Tue) 16:46:20 No.1065015

>yfw South korea becomes the freeist country in the world

Sorry, america, your time is over.

▶Anonymous 05/21/19 (Tue) 22:04:33 No.1065074

>>1065002

Got some more buzzwords?

▶Anonymous 05/22/19 (Wed) 14:01:47 No.1065243

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really GNU/Linux.

▶Anonymous 05/22/19 (Wed) 14:33:56 No.1065245

>>1065002

>Maybe Linux developers will finally take their OS seriously, or let in people who want to take it seriously.

Well, Linux is just a kernel, whereas GNU/Linux is the system and GNU/Linux isn't an one thing - there are many distributions some of them are funny jokes or shit, like 'Hannah Montana linux', but some other distributions are being made seriously, for example Guix System, Gentoo, etc. But if by 'take their OS seriously' you mean clone Windows, then you should know, Windows isn't a serious OS, because it lacks basic features an OS should have, for example a proper package management. But there are distributions that try to be the same way Windows is - GNU/Linux Mint, Debian, RedHat, Fedora, basically everything having systemd.

Also the purpose of GNU/Linux isn't to make convenient environment for gamers and corporations wanting to sell their proprietary software, but its purpose is to give people freedom. And finally 'Linux developers' are just kernel developers, they don't shape how the OS looks like, that's what distro maintainers do.

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