Slackware-Ubuntu?
Ubuntu now has localized Chinese version, also billed as more secure.
But I see no less than four Slackware icons in the promo image! No real point to make - just interesting how so little thought went into the promo image, which is obviously NOT a screenshot of the actual distro... Another interesting article on the same distro, from a different perspective, which mentions neither Linux nor Ubuntu... and hiliraous when you read the source and the conclusions drawn, i.e. Quote:
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For your information, Slackware installer and tools are being translated to Chinese through the Slint project. It just began but you can already see Slint's Changelog in Chinese ;)
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Yes, and while you are here let me say thanks for your part in the translation project(s)! I follow them here but have not had anything to contribute yet. But my point here, if there was a point, is that Ubuntu is using Slackware graphics to promote their new localized Chinese variant, which has been "disclosed" in US congressional hearings by a "security expert" as some sort of secret weapon, impervious to US spying methods and "hardened"... even though you can get it by clicking the "download" button on the Ubuntu website... I almost wish one of the looneys would go ahead and use the nukes so that we can get on with the business of building a world in which sane and intelligent entities can exist, whatever species they turn out to be, and no matter what language they communicate with! |
Frankly, I'm not sure what those icons were supposed to mean.
There's Slackware, Suse, Fedora, Debian, Arch, Gnome, Gentoo, and a couple of others that I don't know. |
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I am sure that who ever made the graphic was clueless as to what they were from, as were the web page designers and apparently everyone else in that particular food chain! |
It just looks like the distro icons that are available in the faenza-icon set, to me. Why are they on an Ubuntu-Chinese "screenshot?" No idea.
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http://www.microlinux.fr/slackware/M...eme.SlackBuild I'd humbly suggest to the folks in China to spend less time bruteforcing my servers and more time to put together a coherent desktop client. |
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Great job, Didier!
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[sarcasm ON] Whoa, that's frightening, but actually Mr Coleman forgot to disclose the potential highest risk represented by coffee machines secretely operated in Chinese government and military offices. Oh, and by "woks" as well: the "enemy" is certainly thinking about using them in an unconventional way. But hopefully there are enough Ne$pressos and polyedrical M$ things out there in order to counterbalance the threat. And such a heretical display of foreign icons is certainly the result of some Western counter-intelligence action. [edit]Perhaps a brand-new and target-focused Dr0neOS is already being developed somewhere in a secret lab. "W4rf4re Edition" will be used to fight Kylin and other evil free OSs, while "PR Home|<ill Edition" will be sold to Chinese, Yemeni, Afghani, Pakistani and Somali civilians as the cool, sysadmin-free OS.[/edit] [sarcasm OFF] |
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