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Date: 2022-03-30
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XSportSeeker
Speculation on my part, but I imagine the acceleration of stuff like this coming out from China is exactly the effect lots of people expected from stuff like trade wars, Huawei, ZTE and Xiaomi bans, and whatnot. There must be a whole lot of focused effort and money thrown in right now to come up with any strategy possible to replace Android and other OSs to stuff the US and other western countries cannot unilaterally block access to.
If phone companies there can't have access to AOSP anymore, they'll turn to Linux and start over. And if it's not Linux, they'll go to something else.
And fair enough, I'd be doing the same... it all sounds like a pretty bad diplomatic loss. Chinese software and services are already siloed enough as they are, once China and other countries get to replacing full stack, a whole lot of leverage will be lost.
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Speculation on my part, but I imagine the acceleration of stuff like this coming out from China is exactly the effect lots of people expected from stuff like trade wars, Huawei, ZTE and Xiaomi bans, and whatnot. There must be a whole lot of focused effort and money thrown in right now to come up with any strategy possible to replace Android and other OSs to stuff the US and other western countries cannot unilaterally block access to.
If phone companies there can't have access to AOSP anymore, they'll turn to Linux and start over. And if it's not Linux, they'll go to something else.
And fair enough, I'd be doing the same... it all sounds like a pretty bad diplomatic loss. Chinese software and services are already siloed enough as they are, once China and other countries get to replacing full stack, a whole lot of leverage will be lost.
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hsoj95
Most likely the reason JingOS chose to use WPS office, instead of LibreOffice, is because WPS has a native touchscreen setup, iirc. I know WPS has mobile apps, I use them on my iPhone. And if I remember right they have an option to turn on touchscreen support for the desktop applications as well. Something LibreOffice lacks, or at least is probably -very- underdeveloped. Personally, I would have chosen Softmaker's FreeOffice, which also has touchscreen support as an option, but... meh!
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Most likely the reason JingOS chose to use WPS office, instead of LibreOffice, is because WPS has a native touchscreen setup, iirc. I know WPS has mobile apps, I use them on my iPhone. And if I remember right they have an option to turn on touchscreen support for the desktop applications as well. Something LibreOffice lacks, or at least is probably -very- underdeveloped. Personally, I would have chosen Softmaker's FreeOffice, which also has touchscreen support as an option, but... meh!
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Nathaniel
I think a lot of people are going to look at this distro and wonder -Why?- but when you look at it in context, it makes sense. China is investing heavily (both through the government, and private companies) in decreasing reliance on Western companies, Apple being one of them. Deepin Linux has received funding for the same purpose. As China works to decrease this reliance, they are also battling a population that has become accustomed to Apple/Microsoft products.
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I think a lot of people are going to look at this distro and wonder -Why?- but when you look at it in context, it makes sense. China is investing heavily (both through the government, and private companies) in decreasing reliance on Western companies, Apple being one of them. Deepin Linux has received funding for the same purpose. As China works to decrease this reliance, they are also battling a population that has become accustomed to Apple/Microsoft products.
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Zsolt
Chromium 90 is the current development version. It is two releases ahead of the stable version, which I belive is around 6 months. They are probably using this version because of its improved wayland support. I am myself on chromium 89, which is the current beta version for the same reason.
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Chromium 90 is the current development version. It is two releases ahead of the stable version, which I belive is around 6 months. They are probably using this version because of its improved wayland support. I am myself on chromium 89, which is the current beta version for the same reason.
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shaunakhub
Chinese companies just love iOS.. Look at their mobile phones - all try to mimic IPhone look as well...
I guess it will be only usable on a Tablet
BTW do they know that people HATE duplicate software (two media players for start) on their mobile devices :-D
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Chinese companies just love iOS.. Look at their mobile phones - all try to mimic IPhone look as well...
I guess it will be only usable on a Tablet
BTW do they know that people HATE duplicate software (two media players for start) on their mobile devices :-D
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Joshua
> That's interesting that they're going with WPS Office...
No. It's not. JingOS is a Chinese distribution. WPS Office was made by a Chinese company. The company backing it was more than likely told by the Great Pooh himself to put it on there.
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> That's interesting that they're going with WPS Office...
No. It's not. JingOS is a Chinese distribution. WPS Office was made by a Chinese company. The company backing it was more than likely told by the Great Pooh himself to put it on there.
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mjdxp
This seems pretty interesting, I wish it wasn't made by a Chinese company though. I have a tablet PC and this could be a perfect UI for me. Unfortunately, since it originates from China it must have some sort of spyware, obviously.
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This seems pretty interesting, I wish it wasn't made by a Chinese company though. I have a tablet PC and this could be a perfect UI for me. Unfortunately, since it originates from China it must have some sort of spyware, obviously.
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lllIllIIIlII
Basically, tablets are just non-sense. Who the heck really needs a truncated laptop without a keyboard and proper pointer devices? Then this iPadOS-esque distro is just non-sense times non-sense.
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Basically, tablets are just non-sense. Who the heck really needs a truncated laptop without a keyboard and proper pointer devices? Then this iPadOS-esque distro is just non-sense times non-sense.
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JingOS
Thanks for your review! As you suggested, we will cancel the email collection form by v0.7, which means people can directly download JingOS. Thank you again!
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Thanks for your review! As you suggested, we will cancel the email collection form by v0.7, which means people can directly download JingOS. Thank you again!
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Yethal
Hey DT, why do you always allocate so little resources to your VMs? You have a 12 core threadripper yet you only give the vms one core each
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Hey DT, why do you always allocate so little resources to your VMs? You have a 12 core threadripper yet you only give the vms one core each
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